Statistical evaluation of epiluminescence microscopy criteria in the differential diagnosis of malignant melanoma and pigmented basal cell carcinoma

M, Püspök-Schwarz; Steiner, Andreas; Binder, Michael; Partsch, B.; Wolff, K; Pehamberger, Hubert

doi:10.1097/00008390-199708000-00005

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“…While these colors are due to melanin in the epidermis, 14 it is known that hyperplastic melanocytes can be found in the overlying epidermis of pigmented BCCs. 1 As previously reported 15 telangiectasia with arborization (ramification), large diameter, or kinking were all significantly increased in BCCs. Arborization (treelike pattern) of telangiectasia gave the most robust diagnostic model, and was found in 52% of the pigmented BCCs.…”

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“…Most of these features have been described elsewhere. 14,15 All morphologic features observed in this study are easily identifiable with a handheld ϫ10 surface microscope (eg, Dermatoscope, Heine Ltd; or Episcope, Welch Allyn Inc, Skaneateles Falls, NY).…”

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“…6,13,14 However, formal statistical evaluation of such features has been reported on only one occasion, and on a small sample of lesions. 15 For this reason we analyzed the morphologic features of a large set of 142 pigmented BCCs and produced a simple surface microscopy method for diagnosis that would allow differentiation from melanomas and benign pigmented tumors.…”

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Surface Microscopy of Pigmented Basal Cell Carcinoma

Menzies¹,

Westerhoff²,

Rabinovitz³

et al. 2000

Arch Dermatol

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To describe the relevant morphologic features and to create a simple diagnostic method for pigmented basal cell carcinoma (BCC) using in vivo cutaneous surface microscopy (ie, dermoscopy, dermatoscopy, or oil epiluminescence microscopy).Design: Pigmented skin lesions were photographed in vivo using immersion oil (surface microscopy). All pigmented skin lesions were excised and reviewed for histological diagnosis. Photographs of 142 pigmented BCCs, 142 invasive melanomas, and 142 benign pigmented skin lesions were randomly divided into 2 equally sized training and test sets. Images from the training set were scored for 45 surface microscopy features. From this a model was derived and tested on the independent test set.

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Surface Microscopy of Pigmented Basal Cell Carcinoma

Menzies¹,

Westerhoff²,

Rabinovitz³

et al. 2000

Arch Dermatol

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“…Statistical evaluation of dermoscopic features defined for pigmented BCCs was first performed by Puspok‐Schwarz et al 12 . In the study, they compared dermoscopic features of 25 pigmented BCCs with those of 25 melanoma.…”

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Evaluation of dermoscopic and histopathologic features and their correlations in pigmented basal cell carcinomas

Demirtaşoğlu¹,

İlknur²,

Lebe

et al. 2006

Acad Dermatol Venereol

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“…Dermatoscopy has recently proved to be a very useful, noninvasive technique for the diagnosis of cutaneous pigmented lesions 9–11 . This method contributes to the correct diagnosis of early lesions of malignant melanoma, 12 allows the differential distinction of other benign or malignant pigmented skin tumors from malignant melanoma, 13 and is useful in the diagnosis of pigmented BCCs 14–17 . Although there are many dermatoscopic studies for pigmented skin lesions, none refer to the pigmented variant of eccrine poroma.…”

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