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A New Dermoscopic Finding in Healthy Children
Jennifer M. Fu, MD;
Michela Starace, MD;
Antonella Tosti, MD
Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(5):596-597. doi:10.1001/archdermatol.2009.58
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Dermoscopy and videodermoscopy are increasingly being used in the evaluation of hair and scalp disorders to improve our diagnostic capabilities and ease clinical management.1-5 The term trichoscopy has recently been proposed to refer to hair and scalp examination with dermoscopy.6 To our knowledge, there are no reports of dermoscopic scalp findings in healthy children.
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Dermoscopic images were obtained from 19 participants, ages 5 months to 14 years, with no prior diagnosis of hair or scalp disease, during the period January 2004 to May 2008. Images were acquired using a computerized polarized-light videodermoscopy system (FotoFinderdermoscope; Teachscreen Software, Bad Birnbach, Germany), with a water interface solution (Eau Thermale Avène, Paris, France), at magnifications ranging from x20 to x70. Two patients were reevaluated 3 years after their initial examination. An additional patient was examined within the same day, before and after . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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