Poor correlation between spectrophotometric intracutaneous analysis and histopathology in melanoma and nonmelanoma lesions

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Terstappen, Karin ^a,b   Suurküla, Mart ^a,c   Hallberg, Håkan ^d   Ericson, Marica B ^a   Wennberg, Ann Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SKARABORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c GÄVLE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

colorimetric analysis; histopathology; imaging; malignant melanoma; skin cancer diagnostics

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALIGNANT MELANOMA; PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CANCERS;

BLOOD; COLLAGEN; COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MELANIN; ONCOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TUMORS;

DERMATOLOGY;

MELANIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DERMATOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TUMOR INVASION;

DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANINS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878659176     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.6.061223     Document Type: Article

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