BACKGROUND Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions. Because of the difficulty and subjectivity of human interpretation, automated analysis of dermoscopy images has become an important research area. Border detection is often the first step in this analysis. METHODS In this article, we present an approximate lesion lo...

A 48-year-old woman presented with a 3 mm, pigmented macule at her first visit to our clinic. The macule, which showed complete symmetry and a typical network, was tentatively diagnosed as a Clark nevus; a 6-month follow-up was recommended, and the patient returned 7 months later. At the second visit, the lesion had enlarged to a diameter of 5 mm, and dermoscopy revealed that it had maintained ...

A 10-year-old female patient, being treated for dystrophic bullous epidermolysis in a Pediatric Hospital, was referred to our Dermoscopy Ambulatory because of a newly observed mole in the submandibular area. Clinically, the lesion presented as an irregular double-colored macule of about 2 cm in diameter, with irregular borders, suspicious of malignancy. Dermoscopy showed a multicomponent patter...

Nodular lesions can be difficult to diagnose under dermoscopy alone, since they often lack specific diagnostic features. Confocal microscopy can be used as an aid to dermoscopy, to increase the diagnostic accuracy on equivocal skin lesions. We report three cases of bluish nodular lesions, difficult to diagnose under dermoscopy alone. Confocal features were very useful in these cases to lead us ...

Nail dermoscopy is helpful in the differential diagnosis of nail disorders including onychomycosis and pigmented and nonpigmented nail tumors. We report two cases of onychomatricoma with concurrent onychomycosis of the same digit. In both cases, dermoscopy of the nail plate exhibited features of onychomatricoma, whereas dermoscopy of the distal free edge revealed features of onychomycosis. It i...

BACKGROUND Early recognition is the most important intervention to improve melanoma prognosis. OBJECTIVE To report the value of dermoscopy and digital dermoscopy in the clinical diagnosis of malignant melanoma (MM). METHODS Retrospective analysis of 99 consecutive primary MMs diagnosed between 2010 and 2013. The MMs were divided into 3 groups: 1) the MM was the reason for consultation (MMC)...

OBJECTIVE To validate dermoscopy as a real-time noninvasive diagnostic imaging technique for actinic keratosis (AK). DESIGN Prospective study to validate a diagnostic test. SETTING Dermatology department of a tertiary university hospital in Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain. PATIENTS A total of 178 patients with a clinical diagnosis of AK participated in the study. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES An ind...

Dermoscopy is a practical, non-invasive tool that can be used to distinguish tinea nigra from other lesions appear macroscopically similar, including acral nevus. Under dermoscopy, presents with pattern of spiculated gray-brown pigment deposition, whereas nevus most often as brown deposition in parallel furrow pattern.

T HE ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY SKVARA ET AL 1 IN this issue of the ARCHIVES focuses on the limitations of dermoscopy in the diagnosis of very early and mainly featureless melanomas. The authors report that baseline dermoscopic patterns of 262 melanocytic nevi did not differ from those of 63 melanomas observed by digital dermoscopy and finally excised because of changes overtime. The authors wisely f...

Australasian Journal of DermatologyVolume 64, Issue S1 p. 39-40 ABSTRACT Dermoscopy First published: 22 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14040Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions Use check box below share version article.I have read accept Wiley ...