title: A portable digital imaging system in dermatology: diagnostic and educational applications.
abstract: Digital photographs were taken by a trainee dermatologist of the presenting lesions of 100 unselected, consecutive new patients. For the 38 patients presenting with rashes there was clinical disagreement in only four cases (10%). For the 62 patients with tumours there was clinical disagreement in three cases (3.8%). In a further three cases both clinicians agreed on a differential diagnosis which was subsequently disproved by histological findings and clinical progress. The study demonstrated that an affordable, low-resolution, fixed-focus digital camera with close-up lenses could provide diagnostically useful images suitable for telediagnosis in dermatology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Queen Victoria Hospital, Morecambe, UK.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lyon
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Harrison
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010781:Photography; D019114:Remote Consultation; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D019113:Telepathology