Dermoscopy for the family physician

American Family Physician

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 441-450

  Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^a   Usatine, Richard P ^b   Jaimes, Natalia ^c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Aurora Skin Cancer Center and Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CHECKLIST; DECISION MAKING; DERMATOFIBROMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EYE EXAMINATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEMANGIOKERATOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; POLARIZATION; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 84885213430     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 15320650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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