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Dermoscopy Flashcards

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Describe how the description of local features varies from global features with regards to dermoscopy?

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  • Pigment network vs Reticular pattern
  • Dots and Globules vs Globular Pattern
  • Streaks/Pseudopods vs Starburst Pattern
  • Blotches vs Homogenous Pattern
  • Regression vs Multicomponent

There is also a Non-Specific pattern naevus.

(Local features various aspects of the naevus whereas the global features describe the overall impression)

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Describe the colour changes that are seen in dermoscopy?

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How does pigment network vary from typical to atypical naevi?

What lesions is it seen in?

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Typical naevi have a regular uniform pattern.

Ayptical naevi are non-uniform, with heterogenous holes & end abruptly.

  • Aquired melanocytic naevi
  • Thin malignant melanomas.
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How do globular patterns of pigmented lesions change between naevi and atypical naevi/malignant melanoma?

What lesions have globular patterns?

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central = naevi

peripheral = malignant melanoma/Atypical

  • Melanocytic naevi = especially compound and intradermal naevi
  • Cobblestone effects is a form of globular pattern and is seen in larger lesions:
    • Congenital melanocytic naevi
    • Seborrheic Keratoses
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Describe how the starburst pattern (global) or streaks/peudopods (local) vary between typical and atypical lesions?

What lesions are these often seen in?

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Symmetical peripheral arrangement = benign naevi & Spitz/Reed’s naevi

Irregular and patchy = malignant melanoma

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Describe how a homogenous pattern (global) or blotches (local) change between typical naevi and ayptical naevi/malignant melanoma?

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Central blotch/homogenous colour = typical naevus

Irregular or peripheral placed blotches = melanoma

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In what 2 lesions is a blue/white veil seen?

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Melanoma and Spitz/Reed Naevi

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What pattern is this?

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Multicomponent Pattern

(There are 3 or more components)

It is highly suggestive of melanoma

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What pattern is this and how is it managed?

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Non-specific pattern

Always consider a malignant melanoma.

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What pattern is this?

Where is it seen?

How do you know when it is melanom?

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Parallel Pattern

Seen acrally

Parralel Ridge Pattern is seen in melanoma - it is thicker and has eccrine gland openings on it.

Parralel Furrow Pattern is seen in typical naevi.

(Ridge is wrong)

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What type of naevi is this?

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Junctional melanocytic naevi

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How do aquired melanocytic naevi change with age?

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  • In children and teenagers - there is a peripheral rim of brown globules as a sign of growth. (Pseudopods)
  • Regular reticular and homogenous pattern in 30s+.
  • Regress with age.
  • Disappear in 70s and above.
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What type of naevus is this?

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Compound melanocytic naevus

(Usually have a raised central portion with a typical globular pattern)

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What type of naevus is this?

What are its typical dermoscopic features?

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Intradermal melanocytic naevi

  • Globular pattern
  • Comma-like blood vessels
  • Cobblestone pattern
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What is this?

What can happen to the central part?

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Blue Naevus

The central part can undergo focal fibrosis. (aka Sclerosing blue naevi)

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What is this?

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Reed Naevus

Seen in adults - legs of females.

It has a starburst pattern.

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What is this?

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Spitz Naevus

  • More commmon in children
  • Amelanocytic version of the Reed naevus.
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What type of naevi are these?

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Atypical Naevi (aka Clark’s naevi)

(Containing similar patterns to melanoma)

NOTE: Establish the predominant pattern of the individual or if they have many atypical naevi on examination.

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19
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What percentage of melanoma come from aquired naevi?

Describe how you can tell if a melanoma might be growing from a naevus on dermoscopy?

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50%

  • Look for the dermoscopic island - a well circumscribed area of uniform dermoscopic pattern that differs from the rest of the lesion - this is most likely the melanoma
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20
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Describe the 3 Point Checklist

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  • Assymmetry of colours and structures
  • Atypical or irregular pigment network
  • Blue-White Veil

A score of 2 out of 3 means that a biopsy needs to be performed.

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21
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What are the 10 most common dermoscopic features of malignant melanoma?

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  1. ​Atypical pigment network
  2. Negative (inverse) pigment network
  3. Focal Streaks (pseudopods/radial streamin
  4. Eccentric blotch
  5. Atypical dots/globules
  6. Blue-white veil
  7. Crystalline (chrysalis) structures
  8. Regression structures
  9. Atypical vascular structures (Polymorphous vessels)
  10. Multiple colours
22
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Analyse this melanoma using the 3 point checklist

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  • Assymetrical colours and structures
  • Atypical pigment network
  • No blue with veil

THEREFORE

2/3

23
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Analyse this melanoma using the 3 point checklist

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  • Asymmetrical colours and structures (blotches, atypical streaks, peripheral globules)
  • Atypical pigment network
  • Possible blue-grey veil

This is a multicomponent pattern

3/3

24
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Describe this using the 3 Point Checklist

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  • Normal colour and structure
  • Irregular pigment network
  • Blue-Grey Veil

2/3

25
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Dermoscopically, how can you determine if hypopigmented or amelanotic lesion is a melanoma?

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  • Looks like a BCC/SCC
  • Foci of pigment remnants - look for blue or gray areas.
  • Atypical vascular pattern - presence of polymorphous blood vessels (dotted, hairpin and irregular linear vessels.)
  • More than one shade of pink.
  • White shiny lines - only seen on polarised dermatoscopes.
26
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What percentage of nodular melanomas are invasive melanomas?

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10-15%

27
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How do nodular melanomas present?

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Rapidly growing papules or nodules that ulcerate or bleed.

28
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Why are nodular melanomas difficult to diagnose at an early stage on dermatoscope?

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The normal features of a superficial spreading malignant melanoma are lacking.

29
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What are the typical dermoscopic features of a nodular melanoma?

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  • Blue gray structures
  • White polarized lines (chrystalline structures).
  • Irregularity of colour
  • Atypical vascular pattern
30
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How are the “rete ridges”on the face different?

How does this affected dermoscopy of pigmented lesions?

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Rete Ridges are flat on the face and thus a “pseudonetwork” = a broad mesh with wider holes.

The pseudonetwork does not distinguish between melanocytic and non-melanocytic lesions

31
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What is a way of distinguishing between benign pigmented lesions vs lentigo maligna?

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Lentigo maligna = poorly defined borders.

Benign pigmented lesions ahve well defined borders.

32
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What are the 5 suspicious dermoscopy findings in lentigo maligna?

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  • Asymmetric follicular openings (Signet Ring Structures)- 1st change in lentigo maligna. It is due to the descent of the melanoma cells into individual hair follicles
  • Annular-granular pattern
  • Dark rhomboidal structures
  • Dark homogeneous areas
  • Pink-reddish areas - indicates invasion and tumour progression.
33
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What are the 3 benign pigmented patterns in acral skin?

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  1. Parallel furrow pattern - Most common (50%)
  2. Lattice-like pattern
    • Arch areas of the sole and/or at the peripheral areas of palms and soles
  3. Fibrilar pattern
    • Parallel fine lines crossing the skin markings in a slanting direction
    • Most common on high pressure areas of feet
34
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What sort of benign acral pattern is this?

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Parallel Furrow Pattern

35
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What sort of benign acral pattern is this?

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Lattice-like pattern

(Most commonly seen on the arches of the feet)

36
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What sort of benign acral pattern is this?

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Fibrilar pattern

(Most commonly seen on the high pressure areas of the feet)

37
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What are the 2 Dermoscopic features of acral malignant melanoma?

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  1. Parallel ridge pattern
  2. Irregular diffuse pigmentation
38
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What sort of acral pattern is this for malignant melanoma?

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Parallel ridge pattern

(Eccrine glands are in the ridge)

39
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What sort of acral pattern is this for malignant melanoma?

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Diffuse Irregular Pattern

40
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What sign is seen here?

What other interesting thing about this nail makes it a malignant melanoma?

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Hutchinson’s sign - periungual pigmentation on the proximal nail fold.

The pigmentation gets wider towards the base meaning that the lesion is enlargening.

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How can you tell the difference between a benign melanocytic naevus and a Malignant Melanoma in a nail?

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Malignant Melanomas in a nail are heterogenous in colour, thickness and spacing with a subtle disruption of parallelism, only noticed with dermoscopy.

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What are the 4 features of a pigmented seborrhoeic keratoses?

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  • Comedo-like openings
  • Milia like cysts
  • Cerebriform pattern
  • Fingerprint-like structures
43
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What is the hallmark feature of a non-pigmented sebhorreic keratosis?

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Hairpin vessels - thin elongated vessels surrounded by whitish halo

44
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What are the features of a dermatofibroma?

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A central white scar-like area and peripheral thin pseudonetwork

45
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What are the dermoscopic features of BCC?

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  • Arborising vessels
  • Blue-Gray Ovoid nests and globules
  • Leaf-like structures
  • Spoke-wheel areas
  • Multiple erosions/ulceration
46
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What features of a BCC do you see here?

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Arborising vessels

Blue ovoid nests

Spoke Wheel Areas

47
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What are the dermoscopic features of a sebaceous hyperplasia?

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  • Sebaceous gland lobules with peripheral telangiectasias.
  • Crown vessels - the telangiectasia do not cross over the lobules.
  • Central punctum
48
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What are the dermoscopic features of cherry haemangiomas on dermoscopy?

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Dark or black on thrombosed lesions called (Lakes or Lacunae)

49
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What are the dermoscopic features of a pyogenic granuloma?

Does it need biopsy?

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Reddish or pinkish homogeneous areas intersected by white lines

(“white rail lines”)

Yes it needs biopsy because it can look like a nodular amelanotic melanoma.

50
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What are the features of an Angiokeratomas on dermoscopy?

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  • Dark Lacunae (Lakes) with a white-veil background.
  • Erythema on the periphery
51
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What are the features of an solar keratosis & IEC on dermoscopy?

A=Solar Keratosis

B,C & D =Bowen’s Disease

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  • Solar Keratosis = a white or yellowish halo surrounding the hair follicular openings over a background of erythema with a variable degree of scale.
    • Often called a Strawberry Pattern
  • IEC = erythematous scaly areas with glomerular vessels and, sometimes, dotted vessels

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