State of the art of diagnostic technology for early-stage melanomaPascale Guitera
Melanoma Institute Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 11:715-23. 2011
..Future perspectives on diagnostic instrumentation will also be explored...
Reflectance confocal microscopy for diagnosis of mammary and extramammary Paget's diseaseP Guitera
Department of Dermatology, Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 27:e24-9. 2013
..Paget's disease is characterized histologically by the presence of neoplastic cells scattered throughout all layers of the epidermis in a pattern similar to that also observed in melanoma (and termed Pagetoid spread)...
In vivo confocal microscopy for diagnosis of melanoma and basal cell carcinoma using a two-step method: analysis of 710 consecutive clinically equivocal casesPascale Guitera
Department of Dermatology, Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
J Invest Dermatol 132:2386-94. 2012
..RCM is a highly accurate non-invasive technique for BCC diagnosis. Good diagnostic accuracy was achieved also for MM diagnosis, although rare variants of melanocytic tumors may limit the strict application of the algorithm...
Diagnostic value of 8.5 T magnetic resonance spectroscopy of benign and malignant skin lesion biopsiesPascale Guitera
Sydney Melanoma Unit, Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Melanoma Res 20:311-7. 2010
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The impact of in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy on the diagnostic accuracy of lentigo maligna and equivocal pigmented and nonpigmented macules of the facePascale Guitera
Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre and Dermatology Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
J Invest Dermatol 130:2080-91. 2010
..In a test set of 29 LMs and 44 BMs, the OR for LM was 60.7 (confidence interval: 11.9-309) (93% sensitivity, 82% specificity)...
Morphologic features of melanophages under in vivo reflectance confocal microscopyPascale Guitera
Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre, Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales 2050, Australia
Arch Dermatol 146:492-8. 2010
..To determine morphologic features of melanophages under in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) and to highlight morphologic features that are important in distinguishing melanophages from melanocytes...
In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy enhances secondary evaluation of melanocytic lesionsPascale Guitera
Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre, Sydney Cancer Centre and Dermatology Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Invest Dermatol 129:131-8. 2009
..3-94.5) compared with dermoscopy (specificity 39%, 95% CI: 23.7-56.2). Secondly, the RCM method classified 100% of the non-biopsied control nevi population as benign...
Dermoscopic evaluation of amelanotic and hypomelanotic melanomaScott W Menzies
Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney Melanoma Diagnostic Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia
Arch Dermatol 144:1120-7. 2008
..To determine the predictive dermoscopic features of amelanotic and hypomelanotic melanoma...