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

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

References

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Published

2023-01-31

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Research Letter

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Identifying Pitfalls for Diagnosing Pigmented Bowen Disease on Reflectance Confocal Microscopy: Misleading Dendritic Cells. Dermatol Pract Concept [Internet]. 2023 Jan. 31 [cited 2024 Dec. 3];13(1):e2023030. Available from: https://dpcj.org/index.php/dpc/article/view/2389

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