The recognition process in dermoscopy: Analytic approach vs heuristic approach

JAMA Dermatology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 704-706

  Scope, Alon ^a   Braun, Ralph P ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEURISTIC APPROACH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; MELANOMA; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84937622309     PISSN: 21686068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2014.4810     Document Type: Editorial

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