Dermoscopic-pathologic correlation: apropos of six equivocal cases

Semin Cutan Med Surg. 2009 Sep;28(3):157-64. doi: 10.1016/j.sder.2009.06.003.

Abstract

The increasing use of dermoscopy in preoperative diagnosis of melanocytic skin neoplasms is impacting on routine histopathology to a relevant extent. We herein present the dermoscopic-pathologic features of 6 cases of histopathologically controversial melanocytic skin neoplasms. By illustrating these cases, we emphasize at least 3 different fields of interest for a combined (clinico-)dermoscopic-pathologic diagnostic approach, namely, information about the evolution of lesions; detection of gross sampling errors; definition of peculiar clinicopathologic entities. The theoretic and practical aspects of a close interaction among dermoscopists and histopathologists are itemized in detail.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Biopsy
  • Dermoscopy*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Melanoma / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Nevus / diagnosis
  • Nevus / pathology*
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology*