Accuracy of dermatoscopy for the diagnosis of nonpigmented cancers of the skin

Nonpigmented skin cancer is common, and diagnosis with the unaided eye is error prone. To investigate whether dermatoscopy improves the diagnostic accuracy for nonpigmented (amelanotic) cutaneous neoplasms. We collected a sample of 2072 benign and malignant neoplastic lesions and inflammatory condit...

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Veröffentlicht in:	JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY 2017-12, Vol.77 (6), p.1100-1109
Hauptverfasser:	Sinz, Christoph, Tschandl, Philipp, Rosendahl, Cliff, Akay, Bengu Nisa, Argenziano, Giuseppe, Blum, Andreas, Braun, Ralph P., Cabo, Horacio, Gourhant, Jean-Yves, Kreusch, Juergen, Lallas, Aimilios, Lapins, Jan, Marghoob, Ashfaq A., Menzies, Scott W., Paoli, John, Rabinovitz, Harold S., Rinner, Christoph, Scope, Alon, Soyer, H. Peter, Thomas, Luc, Zalaudek, Iris, Kittler, Harald
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Child Dermatologi och venereologi Dermatology and Venereal Diseases dermatoscopy Dermoscopy diagnosis Female Humans keratinocytic skin cancer Male melanoma Middle Aged nonpigmented skin cancer Prospective Studies Reproducibility of Results Skin Neoplasms - pathology Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	Nonpigmented skin cancer is common, and diagnosis with the unaided eye is error prone. To investigate whether dermatoscopy improves the diagnostic accuracy for nonpigmented (amelanotic) cutaneous neoplasms. We collected a sample of 2072 benign and malignant neoplastic lesions and inflammatory conditions and presented close-up images taken with and without dermatoscopy to 95 examiners with different levels of experience. The area under the curve was significantly higher with than without dermatoscopy (0.68 vs 0.64, P
ISSN:	0190-9622 1097-6787 1097-6787
DOI:	10.1016/j.jaad.2017.07.022