Accuracy of tele-consultation on management decisions of lesions suspect for melanoma using reflectance confocal microscopy as a stand-alone diagnostic tool.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diagnostic accuracy of reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) as a stand-alone diagnostic tool for suspect skin lesions has not been extensively studied.

Objective

Primary aim was to measure experts' accuracy in RCM-based management decisions. Secondary aim was to identify melanoma-specific RCM features.

Methods

The study enrolled patients ≥18 years that underwent biopsy of skin lesions clinically suspected to be melanoma. One hundred lesions imaged by RCM were randomly selected from 439 lesions prospectively collected at four pigmented lesion clinics. The study data set included 23 melanomas, three basal cell and two squamous cell carcinomas, 11 indeterminate melanocytic lesions and 61 benign lesions including 50 nevi. Three expert RCM evaluators were blind

SUBMITTER: Scope A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6372323 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature