Skin cancer diagnosis with Reflectance confocal microscopy: Reproducibility of feature recognition and accuracy of diagnosis

JAMA Dermatology

Volumn 151, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1075-1080

  Farnetani, Francesca ^a   Scope, Alon ^b,c   Braun, Ralph P ^d   Gonzalez, Salvador ^e   Guitera, Pascale ^f,g   Malvehy, Josep ^h,i   Manfredini, Marco ^a   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^c   Moscarella, Elvira ^j   Oliviero, Margaret ^k   Puig, Susana ^h,i   Rabinovitz, Harold S ^k   Stanganelli, Ignazio ^l   Longo, Caterina ^j   Malagoli, Carlotta ^a   Vinceti, Marco ^a   Pellacani, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁱ CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^j S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^l DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENTIGO; MELANOMA; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLAR LENTIGINES; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATOLOGY; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84944345325     PISSN: 21686068     EISSN: 21686084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2015.0810     Document Type: Article

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