Frontiers in Medicine (Aug 2019)

Dermoscopy of Melanoma and Non-melanoma Skin Cancers

  • Junji Kato,
  • Kohei Horimoto,
  • Sayuri Sato,
  • Tomoyuki Minowa,
  • Hisashi Uhara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2019.00180
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6

Abstract

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Dermoscopy is a widely used non-invasive technique for diagnosing skin tumors. In melanocytic tumors, e.g., melanoma and basal cell carcinoma (BCC), the effectiveness of dermoscopic examination has been fully established over the past two decades. Moreover, dermoscopy has been used to diagnose non-melanocytic tumors. Here, we review novel findings from recent reports concerning dermoscopy of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers including BCC, sebaceous carcinoma, actinic keratosis, Bowen's disease, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD), and angiosarcoma.

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