Dermaimaging

digital dermoscopy

Patient 167

Posted by admin On January - 5 - 2010

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In a 46-year-old woman, on the dorsa of hand

What to see at dermoscopy:

-raised and hyperqueratotic border (arrow)
-central light brown pigmentation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Dermoscopy in favor of porokeratosis

Comments: the dermoscopic findings are present even in early lesions; the hiperqueratotic border corresponds to the histological cornoid lamella

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