Detection of cutaneous malignant melanoma by tape stripping of pigmented skin lesions - A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cutaneous malignant melanoma (MM) is potentially aggressive, and numerous clinically suspicious pigmented skin lesions are excised, causing unnecessary mutilation for patients at high healthcare costs, but without histopathological evidence of MM. The high number of excisions may be lowered by using more accurate diagnostics. Tape stripping (TS) of clinically suspicious lesions is a non-invasive diagnostic test of MM that can potentially lower the number needed to biopsy/excise.

Materials and methods

The aim is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of TS in detecting MM in clinically suspicious pigmented skin lesions. This systematic review following PRISMA guidelines searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase (September 2022) using melanoma combined with tape str

SUBMITTER: Thomsen IMN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10155806 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature