'Do UC the melanoma?' Recognising the importance of different lesions displaying unevenness or having a history of change for early melanoma detection

Australasian Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 119-124

  Yagerman, Sarah E ^a   Chen, Lucy ^b   Jaimes, Natalia ^c   Dusza, Stephen W ^b   Halpern, Allan C ^b   Marghoob, Ashfaq ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

ABCD; change; early detection; melanoma; morphology; ugly duckling; unevenness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN COLOR; SKIN DEFECT; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TUMOR;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84899097550     PISSN: 00048380     EISSN: 14400960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajd.12143     Document Type: Article

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