Performance of the first step of the 2-step dermoscopy algorithm

JAMA Dermatology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 715-721

  Chen, Lucy L ^a   Dusza, Stephen W ^b   Jaimes, Natalia ^c   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; ALGORITHM; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BIOPSY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PROCEDURES; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DERMOSCOPY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; PIGMENTATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84937549180     PISSN: 21686068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2014.4642     Document Type: Article

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