Hotspot analysis by confocal microscopy can help to differentiate challenging melanocytic skin lesions.

Some melanocytic lesions do not present enough clinical and dermoscopic features to allow ruling out a possible melanoma diagnosis. These "doubtful melanocytic lesions" pose a very common and challenging scenario in clinical practice and were selected at this study for reflectance confocal...

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Main Authors: Raquel de Paula Ramos Castro, Juliana Casagrande Tavoloni Braga, Mariana Petaccia de Macedo, Clóvis Antonio Lopes Pinto, José Humberto Tavares Guerreiro Fregnani, Gisele Gargantini Rezze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263819