Dermoscopic-pathologic correlation: apropos of six equivocal cases.
The increasing use of dermoscopy in preoperative diagnosis of melanocytic skin neoplasms is impacting on routine histopathology to a relevant extent. We herein present the dermoscopic-pathologic features of 6 cases of histopathologically controversial melanocytic skin neoplasms. By illustrating these cases, we emphasize at least 3 different fields of interest for a combined (clinico-)dermoscopic-pathologic diagnostic approach, namely, information about the evolution of lesions; detection of gross sampling errors; definition of peculiar clinicopathologic entities. The theoretic and practical aspects of a close interaction among dermoscopists and histopathologists are itemized in detail.
Department of Pathology, Gaetano Rummo General Hospital, Benevento, Italy. gerardo.ferrara@libero.it
Gerardo
G
Ferrara
Giuseppe
G
Argenziano
Caterina M
CM
Giorgio
Iris
I
Zalaudek
Harald
H
Kittler
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D046169:Dermoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009506:Nevus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*