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OSCAR GILJE, M.D.; PAUL A. O'LEARY, M.D.; EDWARD J. BALDES, Ph.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1953;68(2):136-147.

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SOME FEATURES of a dermatosis may be recognized by direct observation of the skin, and a magnifying glass may help in seeing more of the detail. Epidermoscopy¹ and diascopy² may give additional help in the study of certain skin lesions. Coloroscopy is a new technique for studying microscopic organisms and human tissues with colored polarized light. Since these methods of inspection permit of superficial study only, microscopic examination is still the best procedure to determine the pathologic changes in the skin. It is, however, a study of dead tissue and has its limitations, according to histopathologists.³

A direct study of the pathologic and physiologic changes in the living skin under natural conditions may be done by means of capillary microscopy. This is a method of observing the superficial cutaneous vessels through a microscope under direct incident illumination after the skin has been made transparent by . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Section of Dermatology (Dr. O'Leary) and the Section of Biophysics (Dr. Baldes), Mayo Clinic.

Footnotes
Associate professor of dermatology and syphilology at the University Dermatological Clinic, Oslo, Norway, and Fulbright Fellow in Dermatology, Mayo Foundation (Dr. Gilje).

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