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Teaching Benign Skin Lesions as a Strategy to Improve the Triage Amalgamated Dermoscopic Algorithm (TADA)

Elizabeth V. Seiverling, Hadjh T. Ahrns, Amrit Greene, Melissa Butt, Oriol Yélamos, Stephen W. Dusza and Ashfaq A. Marghoob
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2019, 32 (1) 96-102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2019.01.180049
Elizabeth V. Seiverling
From Maine Medical Center, Division of Dermatology, Portland, ME (EVS); Department of Family & Community Medicine (HTA) and Department of Dermatology (AG, MB), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Dermatology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (OY); Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (OY, SWD, AAM).
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Hadjh T. Ahrns
From Maine Medical Center, Division of Dermatology, Portland, ME (EVS); Department of Family & Community Medicine (HTA) and Department of Dermatology (AG, MB), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Dermatology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (OY); Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (OY, SWD, AAM).
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Amrit Greene
From Maine Medical Center, Division of Dermatology, Portland, ME (EVS); Department of Family & Community Medicine (HTA) and Department of Dermatology (AG, MB), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Dermatology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (OY); Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (OY, SWD, AAM).
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Melissa Butt
From Maine Medical Center, Division of Dermatology, Portland, ME (EVS); Department of Family & Community Medicine (HTA) and Department of Dermatology (AG, MB), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Dermatology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (OY); Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (OY, SWD, AAM).
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Oriol Yélamos
From Maine Medical Center, Division of Dermatology, Portland, ME (EVS); Department of Family & Community Medicine (HTA) and Department of Dermatology (AG, MB), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Dermatology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (OY); Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (OY, SWD, AAM).
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Stephen W. Dusza
From Maine Medical Center, Division of Dermatology, Portland, ME (EVS); Department of Family & Community Medicine (HTA) and Department of Dermatology (AG, MB), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Dermatology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (OY); Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (OY, SWD, AAM).
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Ashfaq A. Marghoob
From Maine Medical Center, Division of Dermatology, Portland, ME (EVS); Department of Family & Community Medicine (HTA) and Department of Dermatology (AG, MB), Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; Dermatology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (OY); Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (OY, SWD, AAM).
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Elizabeth V. Seiverling, Hadjh T. Ahrns, Amrit Greene, Melissa Butt, Oriol Yélamos, Stephen W. Dusza, Ashfaq A. Marghoob
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Jan 2019, 32 (1) 96-102; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2019.01.180049

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Elizabeth V. Seiverling, Hadjh T. Ahrns, Amrit Greene, Melissa Butt, Oriol Yélamos, Stephen W. Dusza, Ashfaq A. Marghoob
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Jan 2019, 32 (1) 96-102; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2019.01.180049
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