Negative pigment network identifies a peculiar melanoma subtype and represents a clue to melanoma diagnosis: A dermoscopic study of 401 melanomas

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 650-655

  Bassoli, Sara ^a   Ferrari, Chiara ^a   Borsari, Stefania ^a   Giusti, Francesca ^a   Magnoni, Cristina ^a   Pellacani, Giovanni ^a   Seidenari, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Dermoscopy; Inverse network; Multicomponent; Negative pigment network; Reticular depigmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DISEASE MARKER; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEGATIVE PIGMENT NETWORK; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRUNK; TUMOR INVASION;

ADULT; AGED; DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84886405885     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1588     Document Type: Article

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