Dermoscopy of Oral Mucosal Lesions: Experience from a Tertiary Care Center in North India and Review of Literature.

Background: Patients with mucosal lesions form a significant number of routine outpatients presenting to the dermatology department where diagnostic confirmation using histopathological examination of mucosal biopsy is neither feasible nor warranted in every patient.

Objective: To study the dermoscopic features of various mucosal lesions affecting the oral cavity and to assess the reliability of mucoscopy vis-a-vis clinico-laboratory findings.

Materials And Methods: An observational, cross-sectional, hospital-based study was conducted over a period of 2 years from March 2019 to February 2021 in the dermatology outpatient department.