Accuracy of dermoscopic criteria for discriminating superficial from other subtypes of basal cell carcinoma

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 303-311

  Lallas, Aimilios ^a   Tzellos, Thrassivoulos ^b   Kyrgidis, Athanasios ^c   Apalla, Zoe ^b   Zalaudek, Iris ^a,d   Karatolias, Athanasios ^e   Ferrara, Gerardo ^f   Piana, Simonetta ^a   Longo, Caterina ^a   Moscarella, Elvira ^a   Stratigos, Alexander ^g   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^a  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Hospital of Skin and Venereal Diseases   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e Private Practice   (Greece)

^f G RUMMO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

basal cell carcinoma; dermoscopy; diagnosis; nodular basal cell carcinoma; superficial basal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84892679535     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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