[Alarming skin manifestations: eczema, urticaria or cancer? How to discriminate between benign and dangerous skin changes].
Numerous dermatological lesions can be provisionally diagnosed by the family doctor on the basis of such parameters as location, duration, degree of pruritus, involvement of the epidermis, and the age of the patient. Whenever a lesion is difficult to interpret or suspicious for malignancy, the patient should be referred to a specialist without delay. This is also mandatory in all such cases in which accepted therapeutic measures initiated on the basis of an apparently certain diagnosis on the part of the family doctor fail to cure the problem within a reasonable period of time.
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Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie am Biederstein, Technische Universität München, Biedersteiner Strasse 29, D-80802 München. m.moehrenschlager@lrz.tum.de
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