The increasing use of dermoscopy in preoperative diagnosis of melanocytic skin
neoplasms is impacting on routine histopathology to a relevant extent. We herein
present the dermoscopic-pathologic features of 6 cases of histopathologically controversial
melanocytic skin neoplasms. By illustrating these cases, we emphasize at least
3 different fields of interest for a combined (clinico-)dermoscopic-pathologic diagnostic
approach, namely, information about the evolution of lesions; detection of gross
sampling errors; definition of peculiar clinicopathologic entities. The theoretic and
practical aspects of a close interaction among dermoscopists and histopathologists are
itemized in detail.
Semin Cutan Med Surg 28:157-164 © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.