Misdiagnosis may result from biopsy site selection, technique, or choice of transport media.
Important potential sources of error include false-negative direct immunofluorescence …

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare but lethal cancer with the highest case-by-case fatality
rate among all skin cancers. Eighty percent of cancers are associated with the Merkel cell …

Quickly and confidently evaluate and diagnose skin biopsies with Practical
Dermatopathology. Written from the perspective of both the histopathologist and clinician …

Traditionally, the skin was believed to be devoid of B cells, and studies of the skin immune
system have largely focused on other types of leukocytes. Exciting recent data show that B …

Background Psoriasis is usually diagnosed clinically, so only non‐classic or refractory cases
tend to be biopsied. Diagnostic uncertainty persists when dermatopathologists encounter …

Background: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been shown to provide non-invasive
diagnosis of common skin neoplasms, especially basal cell carcinoma. OCT produces a …

Background A common terminology for diagnosis is critically important for clinical
communication, education, research and artificial intelligence. Prevailing lexicons are …

The author sought to discover why seborrheic keratoses that are not symptomatic or
clinically suspicious are not considered therapeutically important to most clinicians. The …

Nitrogen mustard is a chemotherapeutic agent that has a well-documented safety and
efficacy profile in the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Development of nitrogen …

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