TY - JOUR
AU1 - Soyer, H. Peter
AU2 - Massone, Cesare
AU3 - Ferrara, Gerardo
AU4 - Argenziano, Giuseppe
AB - EDITORIAL Limitations of Histopathologic Analysis in the Recognition of Melanoma A Plea for a Combined Diagnostic Approach of Histopathologic and Dermoscopic Evaluation tion prevails among those clinicians who believe that the pa- HE ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY SKVARA ET AL IN thologist, given only a piece of the patient’s tissue, has all the this issue of the ARCHIVES focuses on the other ingredients necessary to produce a statement of abso- limitations of dermoscopy in the diagno- lute truth at the end of his report. More dangerous to man- sis of very early and mainly featureless kind is a pathologist with the same concept. T melanomas. The authors report that base- line dermoscopic patterns of 262 melanocytic nevi did Remarkably, subsequent literature has not dealt ad- not differ from those of 63 melanomas observed by digi- equately with this important issue. It is difficult to find tal dermoscopy and finally excised because of changes admissions that expert pathologists sometimes have great overtime. The authors wisely foresee that this basically difficulties in recognizing, for example, the threshold sepa- featureless or “feature-poor” group of melanomas will be rating carcinoma in situ or melanoma in situ from atypia used by both sides in the 
TI - Limitations of Histopathologic Analysis in the Recognition of Melanoma
JF - JAMA Dermatology
DO - 10.1001/archderm.141.2.209
DA - 2005-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/limitations-of-histopathologic-analysis-in-the-recognition-of-melanoma-WemM8Dr337
SP - 209
EP - 211
VL - 141
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -