Melanoma skin cancer can be fatal unless caught early, but most skin lesions are harmless. Dermoscopy with training can help with diagnosis. This blog is not a substitute for a medical opinion-if you are worried about a changing or funny looking mole or spot, get it checked by a doctor with suitable skills.
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Blogroll
- A piece on dermoscopy I wrote for MIMS magazine
- Basic Dermatoscopy
- Dermoscopy made simple. A really useful series of instructive dermoscopy videos from Australia.
- Donna Annand Melanoma Charity
- Dr Eric Ehrsam's dermoscopy blog: the best on the web (so far!)
- Free dermoscopy atlas and tutorial
- Free on line dermoscopy course
- Harald Kittler's dermoscopy blog
- Jonathan Bowling's dermoscopy site
- Me and my melanoma-Alethea's story
- Primary Care Dermatology Society dermoscopy tutorial and atlas. The PCDS runs dermoscopy courses for beginners and advanced level, highly recommended.
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Categories
- ABCD rule
- amelanotic melanoma
- angulated lines
- arborising telangiectatic vessels
- asymmetrical black blotch
- asymmetrical featureless area
- atypical naevus
- atypical network melanoma
- avoidable skin cancer referral
- basal cell cancers
- Bengu Nisa Akay
- benign intradermal naevus
- benign nevus
- black mark under nail
- black skin lesion
- blue grey ovoid nests
- blue grey veil
- blue naevus
- blue white veil
- Bowen's disease
- brown globules
- cart wheel structures BCC
- central black blotch
- cerebriform
- chaos and clues
- chaos on dermoscopy
- charcoal flecks
- Cliff Rosendahl
- comedo like openings
- comma vessels
- Covid 19
- cutaneous horn
- dark mole
- dermatoscopic terminology
- dermoscopic terminology
- dermoscopy
- dermoscopy conference
- dermoscopy course
- digital imaging of skin lesions
- dots and globules
- dysplastic naevus
- epithelioid naevus
- fat fingers
- fear of skin cancer
- fissured
- full skin check
- general chat
- globules
- glomerular vessels
- haemangiomas
- hairy mole
- harald kittler
- harmless moles
- in situ melanoma
- international dermoscopy society
- inverse pigment network
- Iris Zalaudek
- irregular dots
- irregular pigment network
- irregular pigmented structures of BCC
- Jeff Keir
- keratinised
- keratoacanthoma
- Kittler method
- lacunae of blood
- lentigo maligna
- lichenoid keratosis
- looped vessels
- LPLK
- luc thomas
- malignant melanoma
- malignant ulcer
- MAY globules
- melanocytic lesion of unknown malignant potential MUMP
- melanoma
- micro ulcers
- milia like cysts
- mole
- multifocal hypopigmentation
- multiple colours in mole
- naevoid melanoma
- nodular melanoma
- non healing scab
- non melanoma skin cancer
- perilous pink papule
- pigmented basal cell cancer
- polygons
- pseudo lacunae
- pseudolacunae
- pseudonetwork
- pseudopod
- pseudopods
- radial streaming
- regression
- reticular pigment network
- reverse pigment network
- seborrhoeic keratoses
- seborrhoeic keratosis
- shiny white streaks
- skin cancer education
- skin cancer leaflet
- skin cancer misdiagnosis
- skin cancer screening
- skin check
- skin screening
- solar lentigo
- Spitz naevus
- squamous cell cancer
- starburst pattern
- streaks
- subungual haematoma
- sun damage
- tattoo skin cancer
- traumatised seborrhoiec wart
- ugly duckling
- ulcerated skin lesion
- Uncategorized
- wart
- white and brown clods
- World Melanoma Day
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