This is too hot of press for my library, if anyone has copy and could email me a pdf I'd gladly buy them a pint.
also below from same authors was retrospective study.
I tried using US clinicially a couple of years ago to differentiate vascular but ambiguous
non viral lesions from plantar warts but found the power doppler imaging appearance unhelpful because present in both. My assumption was that keratoma pesence had likley caused a mechanical inflamatory responce to deeper tissues and this seemed to be true. So diagnosticaly I am not sure how usefull this is other than to explore dimentions. Also I cannot see how US at this affordable frequency (12MHz) would be able to differentiate
SCC which would also be high value clinically.
Wortman et al didnt address these issues in their ealier paper and I am curious to see if this recent one did.
cheers
Martin
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