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work_v57ih2kcrvbmpknv7mjiy7v4rm	Rhett J Drugge	Melanoma screening with serial whole body photographic change detection using Melanoscan technology	2009.0	7	.pdf	application/pdf	4521	457	59	to sensitize a clinical dermatologist to skin changes in individuals at risk for melanoma. traditional, clinical examination of patients, appears to improve the accuracy and early detection of melanomas [35, 36, However, this is the first study of serial whole body photography (Melanoscan®) for the detection of melanoma. Patients were scanned with the use of a serial, automated, digital whole-body photographic imaging instrument, The test cohort included patients at risk for melanoma who were serially screened at regular intervals utilizing Physician referred (MDR) refers to melanoma biopsies obtained from patients who had been referred by nondermatologist MDs to a dermatologist, because of a suspicious, pigmented lesion. Melanomas from the MDR cohort, n=20, were from patients who had been referred by nondermatologists to a dermatologist and exhibited a mean The mean depth of serial scan melanomas was, however, statistically superior to all the clinical as well as laboratory cohorts examined.	./cache/work_v57ih2kcrvbmpknv7mjiy7v4rm.pdf	./txt/work_v57ih2kcrvbmpknv7mjiy7v4rm.txt