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- Porokeratosis variants are uncommon skin conditions that can often be misdiagnosed, mimicking more common skin issues.
- A new technology called line-field confocal optical coherence tomography (LC-OCT) allows for non-invasive imaging of the skin, providing detailed views up to 500µm deep.
- In a study with 54 patients, LC-OCT showed high reliability in diagnosing porokeratosis variants and identified unique features not visible in traditional histology, suggesting it could help avoid unnecessary biopsies.
Article Abstract
Background: Porokeratosis variants are relatively rare and can be clinically misdiagnosed with several common papulokeratotic mimickers. Line-field confocal optical coherence tomography (LC-OCT) is a new technology able to explore the skin in vivo up to a depth of 500 µm.
Objectives: To investigate the role of LC-OCT in the diagnosis of many porokeratosis variants in a preliminary study.
Method: In total, 130 LC-OCT images were obtained from 98 patients, 45 affected by a porokeratosis variant (69 images) and 53 with a mimicker condition (61 images).
Results: We found almost perfect interobserver agreement for LC-OCT image interpretation and perfect correspondence with the findings from histological slides. In addition, a series of morphological in vivo and three-dimensional features related to the cornoid lamella were detected by LC-OCT that were not visible from the histology.
Conclusions: This device can be proposed to assist with rapid bedside noninvasive differentiation of porokeratosis variants from their mimickers, possibly sparing incisional biopsy in patients where the diagnosis is uncertain.
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