Can an inexpensive light-emitting diode loupe magnification device be as good as an expensive dermatoscope?

Background: Dermoscopy is an invaluable technique used in both primary and secondary care to provide clinical information for diagnosis of skin disorders. Access to dermatoscopes is limited because of their high cost that limits clinicians at early levels of training, as well as those in low-resource settings, from developing the essential skills of dermoscopy. Previous solutions that have been proposed to address this issue have failed to demonstrate sufficient evidence for their use as an alternative compared with the gold standard of a dermatoscope, making it difficult to justify adoption of such solutions.