Clinical performance of a noninvasive melanoma rule-out test across Fitzpatrick skin types
Maral K Skelsey1, Brent Loftis2, Mark D Kaufmann3
1Department of Dermatology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia; Dermatologic Surgery Center of DC, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|November 16, 2024
Abstract
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Fitzpatrick skin typegenomic testmedical dermatologymelanomanoninvasive testoncologyrule-out testskin cancerMore Related Videos
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