Dermoscopy: The Essentials

Introduction When you examine a skin lesion with dermoscopy, it might be obviously benign or malignant. There is also a gray zone of equivocal lesions. Gray-zone lesions will commonly be encountered by the novice dermoscopist. To help deal with this…

Dermoscopic analysis of pigmented skin lesions is based on four algorithms: pattern analysis; the ABCD rule; Menzies’ 11-point checklist; and the 7-point checklist. The common denominator of all these diagnostic algorithms is the identification and analysis of dermoscopic criteria found…

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