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ArticleCancers2025

Where Reflectance Confocal Microscopy Provides the Greatest Benefit for Diagnosing Skin Cancers: The Experience of the National Cancer Institute of Naples.

Marco Palla, Gerardo Ferrara, Corrado Caracò, Luigi Scarpato, Anna Maria Anniciello, Paolo Meinardi, Alfonso Amore, Rossella Di Trolio, Giuseppina Marano, Benedetta Alfano and 4 more

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Article in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Marco PallaDepartment of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Gerardo FerraraDepartment of Pathology and Cytopathology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Corrado CaracòDivision of Surgery of Melanoma and Skin Cancer, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Luigi ScarpatoDepartment of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Anna Maria AnnicielloDepartment of Pathology and Cytopathology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Paolo MeinardiDivision of Surgery of Melanoma and Skin Cancer, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2790-2296
Alfonso AmoreDivision of Surgery of Melanoma and Skin Cancer, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Rossella Di TrolioDepartment of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Giuseppina MaranoDepartment of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Benedetta AlfanoDepartment of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Manuel TuccilloManagement Control and Information Services, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0009-0001-6612-6429
Domenico MallardoDepartment of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1081-5313
Giovanni PellacaniDermatology Clinic, Department of Clinical Internal, Anesthesiologic and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7222-2951
Paolo Antonio AsciertoDepartment of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8322-475X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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epiluminescence microscopymelanocytic lesionsmelanomareflectance confocal microscopy

Identifiers

PMID40507227
PMCPMC12153731

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