Identifying Pitfalls for Diagnosing Pigmented Bowen Disease on Reflectance Confocal Microscopy: Misleading Dendritic Cells

Banu Farabi; Babar K.  Rao; Manu Jain

doi:10.5826/dpc.1301a30

Identifying Pitfalls for Diagnosing Pigmented Bowen Disease on Reflectance Confocal Microscopy: Misleading Dendritic Cells

Authors

Banu Farabi Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Babar K. Rao Department of Dermatology, Weil Cornell Medical School, NY, USA
Manu Jain Department of Dermatology, Weil Cornell Medical School, NY, USA; Dermatology Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Keywords:

Bowen's disease, squamous cell carcinoma in situ, reflectance confocal microscopy, dermoscopy, dendritic cells

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