Diagnosis of pigmented skin lesions: How to recognize a malignant melanoma;Diagnostiek van gepigmenteerde huidafwijkingen: Hoe een maligne melanoom te onderkennen

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 148, Issue 46, 2004, Pages 2261-2267

  Giard, R W M ^a,b   Neumann, H A M ^c  

^a Medisch Centrum Rijnmond Zuid   (Netherlands)

^b IKAZIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; NETHERLANDS; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TECHNIQUE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 9144258028     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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