Dermoscopy Features as Clues

This is a teaching blog of the Australian Institute of Dermatology. The blog will look at the Kittler and Menzies algorithms for diagnosing pigmented skin lesions and illustrate them with cases from the Skin Cancer College of Australia and New Zealand's dermatoscopy blog. You can join the next Institute Dermatoscopy course at www.aiddermatoscopy.com

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Monday, April 5, 2021

How to use this website in day to day practice or in looking at dermatoscopic images if learning.

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 You look at a lesion and decide on the pattern. Lines take precedence over pseudopods, circles, clods and dots with structureless last. Act...

Features as Clues.

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 When we look at a lesion with a dermatoscope we initially ask "Is it symmetrical or asymmetrical?" and then we look for features ...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Clues to Melanoma

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You can see from this lesion that there are a variety of clues to allow you to diagnose this lesion as a melanoma. Taken together it really ...

Thick lines reticular or branched

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This feature is found where the outline of the network is much thicker than that of the rest of the lesion or the surrounding background ski...

Lines radial peripheral or segmental pseudopods

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Peripheral lines radial represents nests of growing melanocytes at the edge of a pigmented lesion. A Reed nevus shows the phenomenon best wi...
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