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Alon Scope1, Marco Burroni, Anna Liza Chan Agero

  • 1Dermatology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10022, USA.

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
|January 20, 2007
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Individuals tend to have a few common dermoscopic nevus global patterns. This study found that most patients exhibit one to three predominant patterns in their moles, suggesting a degree of uniformity in nevus presentation.

Area of Science:

  • Dermatology
  • Dermoscopy
  • Nevus Classification

Background:

  • Clinical observation suggests "normal" moles within individuals share similarities.
  • The applicability of this concept to dermoscopic practice remains under-investigated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if dermatologists can identify common dermoscopic profiles of nevi within individual patients.
  • Investigating the consistency of nevus dermoscopic patterns in a single patient.

Main Methods:

  • Dermatologists evaluated dermoscopic images of 205 nevi from 18 patients.
  • Assessed global pattern, color, and specific structures for each nevus.
  • Defined dominant patterns (>=40% of nevi) and minor patterns (20-39%).

Main Results:

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  • A dominant dermoscopic pattern was observed in 83% of patients.
  • In 72% of patients, 80% of nevi fell into one to three global patterns.
  • Reticular pattern was the most common dominant pattern (50%), and homogeneous was the most common minor pattern (89%).

Conclusions:

  • Individuals typically exhibit one to three predominant dermoscopic nevus global patterns.
  • This suggests a degree of uniformity in the dermoscopic appearance of nevi within a single patient.