Applications of Dermatoscopy in Skin Diseases: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 522
Special Issue Editors
Interests: skin cancer; melanoma; inflammoscopy; autoimmunity; artificial intelligence; total body photography and ultraviolet reflectance dermatoscopy; polarization
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Interests: dermoscopy; immune-mediated skin diseases; inflammoscopy; pediatric dermatology; psoriasis; rare diseases; skin of color; skin tumors
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Interests: skin cancer; dermoscopy; reflectance confocal microscopy; optical coherence tomography; artificial intelligence; melanoma; Mohs micrographic surgery
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Dear Colleagues,
The editors are grateful to the many researchers who contributed to the success of the first volume of this Special Issue (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/special_issues/Y89R1SX4Z6). We are very pleased to announce the second volume of our Special Issue, titled “Applications of Dermatoscopy in Skin Diseases: 2nd Edition”.
Dermatoscopy is an auxiliary non-invasive in vivo diagnostic method complementary to clinical examination and pathology. It enables the visualization of submacroscopic structures in the skin, mucosa, and adnexa, and has been proved to have a tremendous impact on diagnostic accuracy, decision making, and disease monitoring. In recent decades, we witnessed the rapid development of devices, including the implementation of polarized light source, multispectral illumination, optical super-high magnification dermatoscopy, and finally, the use of ultraviolet diodes. Once used as a handheld device, dematoscopes are becoming videodermatoscopes, easily attached to smartphones and cameras allowing for clinical and microscopic data storage, digital follow-up and data transfer/processing (telehealth and artificial intelligence). Even though the method was initially intended to be used in skin cancer diagnosis, its scope became very vast including non-neoplastic dermatoses, infestations and infectious diseases, abnormalities of the adnexa (hair, nails, teeth), extending to mucosal disorders, genital dermatoses, and esthetic medicine.
We would like to invite you to contribute papers addressing all the aforementioned aspects related to this Special Issue on “Applications of Dermatoscopy in Skin Diseases.”
Dr. Paweł Pietkiewicz
Dr. Enzo Errichetti
Dr. Cristian Navarrete
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- melanoma
- skin cancer
- inflammoscopy
- trichoscopy
- ultraviolet reflectance dermatoscopy
- skin of color
- basal cell carcinoma
- squamous cell carcinoma
- nevus
- digital dermoscopy
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