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- Title
Clinical techniques in veterinary dermatology: Dermoscopy.
- Authors
Burroughs, Dylan L.; Diaz, Sandra F.
- Abstract
Dermoscopy is a noninvasive, painless, easy‐to‐perform technique used in human and veterinary medicine for rapid and magnified in vivo observation of dermatological lesions and disease. Dermoscopy can lead to a swifter diagnosis and may eliminate the need to perform more invasive diagnostic testing such as skin biopsies. To perform dermoscopy, the clinician needs a dermoscope and a software program equipped with image capture for pattern identification. Two techniques exist for dermoscopy: standard contact, where the dermoscope is applied directly to the patient's skin with the use of a liquid interface, or noncontact, where there is no direct contact between the skin and the dermoscope. The most important criteria to be considered when using dermoscopy are the morphology/arrangement of vascular structures, scaling patterns, colours, follicular abnormalities and specific disease features. Application of dermoscopic findings should always be correlated with the patient's history, clinical signs and the morphology of the skin lesions. Dermoscopy does require an initial financial and time investment by the clinician, yet this technique can quickly and easily help to identify patterns of disease that correlate with clinical diagnosis of dermatological disease.
- Subjects
VETERINARY dermatology; DERMOSCOPY; INVASIVE diagnosis; SKIN tests; SKIN biopsy
- Publication
Veterinary Dermatology, 2023, Vol 34, Issue 2, p164
- ISSN
0959-4493
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/vde.13139