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Article: Noninvasive imaging beneficial for skin tumor diagnosis and treatment efficacy.
- Article from:
- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- May 23, 2004
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2004 MAY 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Noninvasive imaging is beneficial for skin tumor diagnosis and treatment efficacy.
Different "approaches to the diagnosis of skin tumors using noninvasive diagnostic tools which are becoming increasingly reliable and, as a consequence, increasingly popular among physicians and patients" are reviewed. Especially in the realm of pigmented skin lesions, dermoscopy and sonography may add useful information to the clinical constellation, improving the diagnostic performance for early diagnosis of melanoma and for differentiating various melanocytic and nonmelanocytic pigmented lesions," wrote scientists in Italy.
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