An integrated clinical and dermoscopic risk scoring system (iDScore) for the differentiation between early melanoma and atypical nevi

BACKGROUND

Dermoscopy revealed to be extremely useful in the diagnosis of early melanoma, the most important limitation being its subjectivity in giving a final diagnosis. In order to overcome this problem several algorithms and checklists have been proposed. However, they generallydemonstrated modest level of diagnostic accuracy, unsatisfactory concordance between dermoscopists and/or poor specificity.

OBJECTIVE

To test a new methodological approach for the differentiation between early melanoma and atypical nevi, based on an integrated clinical-anamnestic dermoscopic risk scoring system (iDScore).

Tognetti L, Cevenini G, Moscarella E, Cinotti E, Farnetani F, Mahlvey J, Perrot JL, Longo C, Pellacani G, Argenziano G, Fimiani M, Rubegni P.

J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2018 Jun 10. doi: 10.1111/jdv.15106. [Epub ahead of print]