Skin lesion suspicious of melanoma: time to one-step removal
Antonio Tejera-Vaquerizo 1 4 , Francisco Russo 2 , Gonzalo Nieto-González 3
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1 Dermatology Department, Instituto Dermatológico GlobalDerm, Palma del Río, Córdoba, Spain.
2 Dermatology Department, Hospital Punta de Europa, Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain.
3 Dermatology Department, Hospital Santos Reyes, Aranda del Duero, Burgos, Spain.
4 Correponding author. Email: antoniotejera@aedv.es
Journal of Primary Health Care 11(2) 87-88 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC19044
Published: 18 July 2019
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2019.
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