Acral Melanocytic Nevi in a High-Risk Population: Prevalence, Clinical Characteristics and Dermatoscopic Patterns.

Background: The prevalence of acral nevi and their dermatoscopic patterns have been mainly studied in Asian populations. Few data exist on the prevalence and clinico-dermatoscopic morphology of acral nevi in white populations.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of acral nevi and evaluate their features in a cohort of Caucasian individuals at high risk for skin cancer.

Dermoscopic Clues of Histopathologically Aggressive Basal Cell Carcinoma Subtypes.

The group of histopathologically aggressive BCC subtypes includes morpheaform, micronodular, infiltrative and metatypical BCC. Since these tumors are at increased risk of recurring, micrographically controlled surgery is considered the best therapeutic option. Although dermoscopy significantly improves the clinical recognition of BCC, scarce evidence exists on their dermoscopic criteria.

Real-life data on basal cell carcinoma treatment: Insights on clinicians' therapeutic choices from an institutional hospital registry.

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer in white skin individuals. The treatment of choice is surgical excision, but several other therapeutic choices are available and might also be efficient and cost-effective in selected cases of low-risk BCC or when surgery is complicate or contraindicated. The aim of the current study was to analyze the applied treatments for BCC in the real-life practice of a tertiary hospital, and investigate factors associated to the tumor and the patients that might influence the treatment selection of clinicians.

Second primary melanomas in a cohort of 977 melanoma patients within the first 5 years of monitoring.

Background: In retrospective studies, a second primary melanoma (SPM) develops in 2%-20% of melanoma patients. Scarce evidence exists on the usefulness of total-body photography (TBP) and digital dermatoscopic documentation (DDD) for detecting SPMs.

Objective: The primary aim was to quantify the risk and investigate the time of occurrence of SPMs.

Dermoscopy of Spitz/Reed naevi and management.

Since their first description by Sophie Spitz, Spitz nevi have been a subject of controversy among clinicians for many decades, and remain a clinical conundrum until today as their etiology, morphology, biological behavior and natural evolution is still not totally clear. This is because their clinical, dermoscopic and histopathologic features sometimes overlap with those of melanoma, rendering the management of spitzoid lesions particularly difficult. In addition, cases of histopatologically equivocal lesions do exist and their classification might sometimes be very challenging.