Combined Use of Dermoscopy, Reflectance Confocal Microscopy, and Ex-Vivo Gene Expression Profiling to Detect a Micromelanoma Less Than 1 mm in Diameter
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reflectance confocal microscopy, dermoscopy, gene expression profiling, micro-melanoma, melanoma, skin cancer, early detectionReferences
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