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- Title
The clinical and dermatoscopic features of melanocytic nevi in Turkish young people between 18-25 years old.
- Authors
Ozturk, Aylin; Arca, Ercan; Gonulal, Melis
- Abstract
Purpose: Melanocytic nevi are common pigmented lesions of the skin. That can be confused with melanoma which is most malign tumor of the skin. Malign transformation of an existing nevus is one of the most seen etiological factor for melanoma formation. Although characteristics of childhood nevi well studied, there are not much data about the nevi at 18-25 years old age group. The aim of this study is to determine the clinical and dermoscopic features of melanocytic nevi in Turkish young people with 18-25 years-old. Material and methods:Students of Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Military Nurse School and Military Health Sergeant School and patients applied to outpatient clinic of Gulhane Military Medical Academy Department of Dermatology were included in the study. On clinical examination, we evaluated number of nevi, location of nevi and skin type. Nevi ≥3mm were examined dermoscopically, recorded and scored by using pattern analysis, ABCD total dermoscopic score, 7 point checklist, Menzies algorithm, 3 point checklist and CASH algorithm. Results:Totally 668 young people were physically examined in this study (268 of which were women and 400 of which were men). The most common skin phototype in both sexes was type 3 (91.6% of women, 85.25% of men). A total of 3663 melanocytic nevi were determined. Mean number of nevi among cases were 5.4±5.24. A total of 453 nevi which are equal or greater than 3 mm were examined dermatoscopically. The most common localization of these nevi was the head and neck region (n=147; 32.5%), followed by anterior trunk (n=126; 27.8%), back (n=119; 26.3%), extremities (n=48; 10.6%) and acral region (n=13; 2.8%). The most common dermatoscopic global feature was the globular pattern (n=135; 29.8%), followed by reticular pattern (n=88; 19.4%), and cobblestone pattern (n=64; 14.1%). The correlations between 5 dermoscopic algorithm scores were done statically. Except the correlation between 7-point checklist and total CASH score (p=0.052 r=0.091), all algorithms were correlated with each other. Conclusion: Different dermoscopic algorithms can be used together in routine to investigate the melanocytic nevi for valuable professional follow. This is the one of the rare studies about the characteristics of melanocytic nevi at young adult age group that lays the foundation for other studies that will elucidate the relationship between dermatoscopic pattern and the other factors in a population-based studies.
- Subjects
MELANOMA; SKIN cancer; MELANOCYTES; ETIOLOGY of cancer; DERMATOLOGY
- Publication
Pamukkale Medical Journal, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 2, p428
- ISSN
1309-9833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31362/patd.810294