Features Amplifying Dermoscopy (FAD) for better evaluation in difficult pigmented and non-pigmented melanocytic skin tumors

JDDG - Journal of the German Society of Dermatology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 77-79

  Blum, Andreas ^a   Ellwanger, Ulf ^b   Luedtke, Holger ^b  

^a Public Private and Teaching Practice of Dermatology   (Germany)

^b DatInf GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEATURES AMPLIFYING DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; LETTER; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA IN SITU; MICROSCOPE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT DISORDER; SKIN DEFECT; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84892374002     PISSN: 16100379     EISSN: 16100387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddg.12202     Document Type: Letter

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