Digital analysis yields more reliable and accurate measures of dermal and epidermal thickness in histologically

Sergey Y Turin1, Joanna K Ledwon1, Hanna Bae1

  • 1Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

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