The most common mistakes on dermatoscopy of melanocytic lesions

Postepy Dermatologii i Alergologii

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-39

  Kamińska Winciorek, Grazyna ^a   Placek, Waldemar ^b  

^a Center for Diagnostics and Treatment of Skin Diseases   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Basic mistakes; Common mistakes; Dermatoscopy; Dermoscopy; Principles; Rules; Wrong diagnosis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DERMATOSCOPIST; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REVIEW; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84922625965     PISSN: 1642395X     EISSN: 22990046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/pdia.2014.44029     Document Type: Review

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