DERMATOSCOPY OF NON-PIGMENTED SKIN TUMORS

ALTHOUGH MANY SKIN LESIONS ARE PIGMENTED, DERMATOSCOPY OF NON-PIGMENTED SKIN TUMORS: PINK - THINK - BLINK ADDRESSES NON-PIGMENTED LESIONS, WHICH MAY BE MORE DIFFICULT TO DIAGNOSE. IT DISCUSSES DERMATOSCOPY NOT ONLY AS A RELIABLE TOOL FOR DIAGNOSIS, BUT ALSO FOR THE MONITORING OF TREATMENT OUTCOMES FOLLOWING TOPICAL THERAPY.THE CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OF NON-PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS IS ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING IN THE DAILY ROUTINE. TO ARRIVE AT A CORRECT DIAGNOSIS—OR AT LEAST AN ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT PLAN—THE CLINICIAN NEEDS TO COLLECT MANY PIECES OF INFORMATION AND PUT THEM TOGETHER LIKE A PUZZLE. ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY 200 COLOR CLINICAL AND DERMATOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHS, THIS BOOK IS AN INVALUABLE GUIDE FOR CLINICIANS STRIVING TO SOLVE THE DIAGNOSTIC PUZZLE AND CORRECTLY IDENTIFY NON-PIGMENTED LESIONS.

TECHNICAL ASPECTSPHYSICS OF POLARIZED AND NONPOLARIZED DERMOSCOPY AND DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCESINSTRUMENT-DEPENDENT CRITERIA KEY POINTS KEY FEATURE KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES METAPHORIC AND DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE IN DERMOSCOPY: LESSONS FROMTHE COGNITIVE SCIENCES INTRODUCTION: METAPHORS IN DERMATOLOGY AND DERMOSCOPY DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY IN DERMOSCOPY SCHEMATIC ILLUSTRATION VISUAL METAPHORS SYNTHESIS: SEEKING A CLEAR, EFFECTIVE TERMINOLOGY IN DERMOSCOPY KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCESHOW TO PERFORM DERMOSCOPY OF NON-PIGMENTED SKIN LESIONS KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT FLOWCHART FOR DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE KEY FEATURE KEY MANAGEMENTDERMATOSCOPY OF NONPIGMENTED LESIONSHOW TO ASSESS A GIVEN NON-PIGMENTED LESION KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES CLINICAL ASSESSMENT KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT VASCULAR MORPHOLOGIES KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES VASCULAR ARRANGEMENTS KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCE SPECIFIC PATTERNS KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCESDERMATOSCOPIC CLUES IN NON-PIGMENTED LESIONS SUMMARY AND KEY FEATURES INTRODUCTION DECIDING WHETHER A LESION IS RAISED WHITE CLUES WHITE LINES SURFACE KERATIN, DERMATOSCOPIC WHITE CIRCLES, AND STRUCTURELESS AREAS INRAISED LESIONS OTHER "NON-VESSEL" CLUES TO DIAGNOSIS VESSEL PATTERN ANALYSISFLAT LESIONS RAISED LESIONSREFERENCESTHE INFLUENCE OF TUMOR THICKNESS ON THE VASCULAR MORPHOLOGIES KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCESSPECIFIC DERMATOSCOPIC PATTERNS AND THEIR DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCEINTRADERMAL NEVI (INCLUDING UNNA AND MIESCHER TYPE) KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS DERMOSCOPIC FEATURES CLINICAL MANAGEMENT REFERENCES CLARK NEVI IN FAIR SKIN TYPES KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES SPITZ NEVI KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION DERMOSCOPY REFERENCESATYPICAL SPITZOID NEOPLASMS (ATYPICAL SPITZ NEVI, ATYPICAL SPITZ TUMORS, SPITZOIDMELANOMA): A CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL UPDATE KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCENEVI IN PATIENTS WITH BAP1 GERM LINE MUTATION, RED-HAIR POLYMORPHISM,AND ALBINISM KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES AMELANOTIC MELANOMA KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT EARLY AMELANOTIC MELANOMA INTERMEDIATE THICKNESS AMELANOTIC MELANOMA THICK MELANOMA REFERENCESHYPOMELANOTIC MELANOMA KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES CUTANEOUS MELANOMA METASTASES KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES SEBACEOUS HYPERPLASIA SHORT EXPLANATORY TEXT KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS CLEAR CELL ACANTHOMA LARGE CELL ACANTHOMA REFERENCESDERMATOFIBROMAS KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES ANGIOMA, PYOGENIC GRANULOMA, ANGIOKERATOMA INTRODUCTION CHERRY ANGIOMA PYOGENIC GRANULOMA ANGIOKERATOMA REFERENCES BENIGN ADNEXAL LESIONS KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT SEBACEOUS LESIONS FOLLICULAR LESIONS ECCRINE AND APOCRINE LESIONS REFERENCESBASAL CELL CARCINOMA KEY POINTS INTRODUCTION NODULAR BASAL CELL CARCINOMA (NBCC) SUPERFICIAL BASAL CELL CARCINOMA (SBCC) INFILTRATIVE BASAL CELL CARCINOMA (IBCC) FIBROEPITHELIAL BCCINFUNDIBULOCYSTIC BCC BASOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA CONCLUSION REFERENCESKERATINOCYTE SKIN CANCER INTRODUCTION ACTINIC KERATOSIS BOWEN’S DISEASESQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA REFERENCESDERMOSCOPY OF CUTANEOUS NEUROENDOCRINE ("MERKEL CELL") CARCINOMAKEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT DERMOSCOPY MANAGEMENT REFERENCESMALIGNANT VASCULAR, ADNEXAL, AND FIBROUS TISSUE TUMORS KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT MALIGNANT VASCULAR TUMORS MALIGNANT TUMORS OF THE FIBROUS TISSUE MALIGNANT ADNEXAL TUMORS REFERENCES CLUES FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF INFLAMMATORY LESIONSFROM TUMORAL LESIONS KEY FEATURES DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (DLE) VERSUS ACTINIC KERATOSIS PSORIASIS VERSUS SUPERFICIAL BASAL CELL CARCINOMA (SBCC) AND BOWEN’S DISEASE (BD) DERMATITIS VERSUS MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES (MF) REFERENCES DERMOSCOPY FOR ASSESSING SURGICAL MARGINS KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCESDERMOSCOPY IN THE TREATMENT DECISION (SURGICAL VS. TOPICAL) KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCESDERMOSCOPY FOR TREATMENT MONITORING (RECURRENCE VS. CLEARANCE) DERMOSCOPIC MONITORING OF MEDICAL TREATMENTS FOR NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCERS KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT REFERENCES DIAGNOSTIC CLUES AND MANAGEMENT RULES CLUES FOR DIAGNOSING TUMORS SHOWING DOTTED/COILED VESSELS CLUES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF NODULAR PINK LESIONS CLUES FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF FLAT NON-PIGMENTED TUMORS ALWAYS OBTAIN A HISTOPATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF A CLINICALLY AND DERMOSCOPICALLYSUSPECTED DIAGNOSIS OF PYOGENIC GRANULOMA LESIONS WITH A POLYMORPHOUS VASCULAR PATTERN SHOULD ALWAYS BE CONSIDEREDSUSPICIOUS AND SUBMITTED FOR HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IF PIGMENT IS PRESENT, LOOK AT IT FIRST BEFORE ASSESSING THE VASCULAR PATTERN CLUES TO RECOGNIZE MELANOMA MIMICKING NODULAR BASAL CELL CARCINOMACONFOCAL MICROSCOPY IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF NON-PIGMENTEDSKIN TUMORS (WHICH, WHEN, AND WHEN NOT) KEY FEATURES KEY MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION BEST INDICATIONS LIMITATIONS CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES