The road to real-time, bedside, optical imaging pathology: basal cell carcinoma and beyond

C Navarrete-Dechent^{1

2}, A A Marghoob², C-S J Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
² Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Editorial

C Navarrete-Dechent et al. Br J Dermatol. 2020 Feb.

. 2020 Feb;182(2):257-259.

doi: 10.1111/bjd.18471.

C Navarrete-Dechent^{1

2}, A A Marghoob², C-S J Chen²

¹ Department of Dermatology, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
² Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.

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Basal cell carcinoma characterization using fusion ex vivo confocal microscopy: a promising change in conventional skin histopathology.
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