Dermoscopy combined with Wood lamp, a diagnostic alternative for five pigmented lesions on the face: an observational study

Dermoscopy – a New Diagnostic Approach of Pigmented Skin Lesions

Dermoscopy is a noninvasive diagnostic method, which is becoming increasingly reliable and, as a consequence, increasingly popular among dermatologists and patients. Especially in the field of pigmented skin lesions (PSLs), dermoscopy may add useful information to the clinical constellation, improving the diagnostic performance for early diagnosis of melanoma and for differentiating various mel...

Dermoscopy of pigmented skin lesions.

This paper describes the basic concepts of dermoscopy, the various dermoscopic equipments and the standard criteria for diagnosing pigmented skin lesions. In assessing dermoscopic images, both global and local features can be recognized. These features will be systematically described and illustrated in Part I of this article. First, we will focus on 8 morphologically rather distinctive global ...

Dermoscopy of pigmented skin lesions.

Dermoscopy is an in vivo method for the early diagnosis of malignant melanoma and the differential diagnosis of pigmented lesions of the skin. It has been shown to increase diagnostic accuracy over clinical visual inspection in the hands of experienced physicians. This article is a review of the principles of dermoscopy as well as recent technological developments.

Dermoscopy of pigmented skin lesions (Part II).

Dermoscopy of pigmented lesions on mucocutaneous junction and mucous membrane.

BACKGROUND The dermoscopic features of pigmented lesions on the mucocutaneous junction and mucous membrane are different from those on hairy skin. Differentiation between benign lesions and malignant melanomas of these sites is often difficult. OBJECTIVE To define the dermoscopic patterns of lesions on the mucocutaneous junction and mucous membrane, and assess the applicability of standard de...