Dermoscopy of Bacterial, Viral, and Fungal Skin Infections: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

ABSTRACT: Over the last three decades, the use of dermoscopy has been extended to inflammatory and infectious dermatoses. Regarding the latter, while the first applications concerned skin parasitoses, there has been a significant increase in the publication trend regarding nonparasitic dermatoses over recent years, yet data on this topic are sparse and often lack a standardized analytical approach. This systematic literature review summarizes published data on dermoscopy of bacterial, viral, and fungal dermatoses (dermoscopic findings, used setting, pathological correlation, and level of evidence of studies) and provides a homogeneous terminology of reported dermoscopic features according to a standardized methodology. A total of 152 papers addressing 43 different dermatoses and describing 184 diffe

SUBMITTER: Chauhan P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9823193 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature