Dermatology Practical & Conceptual

Dermatology Practical & Conceptual is the official journal of the International Dermoscopy Society.

Dermatology Practical & Conceptual is an international peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed, Open Access journal that publishes articles covering practical and conceptual aspects in the field of dermatology. There are no submission fees and no page charges for submissions to the journal.

Current Issue

2022 Vol 12, No 3 | July

DPCJ Issue 3-2022

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Commentary

Dermoscopy for acral melanocytic lesions: Revision of the 3-step algorithm and refined definition of the regular and irregular fibrillar pattern

Hiroshi Koga, Toshiaki Saida, Hisashi Uhara

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Original Article

Can immunofluorescence on Tzanck smear be used as a substitute for direct immunofluorescence on skin biopsy in diagnosis of pemphigus disease?

Mohammad Shahidi Dadras, Zahra Asadi Kani, Behnaz Hamedani, Sahar Dadkhahfar, Nazy Rastgoo, Nikoo Mozafari

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Habits of using social media and the internet in psoriasis patients

Melek Aslan Kayıran, Ayşe Serap Karadağ, İlteriş Oğuz Topal, Esra Adışen, Sevilay Kılıç, Nuray Keskin, Asude Kara Polat, Bengü Çevirgen Cemil, Mualla Polat, Oğuz Yılmaz, Hilal Ayvaz, Filiz Topaloğlu Demir, Sezgi Sarıkaya Solak, Derya Uçmak, Mehmet Salih Gürel, Sema Aytekin, Algün Polat Ekinci, Kübra Nursel Bölük, Neslihan Şendur, Tuğba Özkök Akbulut, Günseli Öztürk, Ayda Acar, Erkan Alpsoy

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Evaluation of Diagnostic Accuracy and Therapeutic Approach of Dermatologists and Plastic Surgeons to Non-Melanocytic Skin Lesions by Using Telemedicine

Burcu Tugrul, Basak Yalici-Armagan, Hatice Gamze Demirdag, Ozge Gunduz

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Dermoscopic Photographs Impact Confidence and Management of Remotely Triaged Skin Lesions

Tova Rogers, Myles Randolph McCrary, Howa Yeung, Loren Krueger, Suephy Chen

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Sonographic Characteristics of Leiomyomatous Tumors of Skin and Nail—A Case Series

Eyal Taleb, Cristobal Saldias, Sergio Gonzalez, Carlos Misad, Ximena Wortsman

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Elevated Serum Levels of Interleukin-15 in Pemphigus Vulgaris Patients: A Potential Therapeutic Target

Maedeh Kheirodin, Zohreh Tehranchinia, Yasaman Ketabi, Soheil Tavakolpour, Sahar Dadkhahfar, Masoomeh Faghankhani, Hassan Vahidnezhad, Nikoo Mozafari

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Nonsurgical Reshaping of the Lower Jaw With Hyaluronic Acid Fillers: A Retrospective Case Series

Raffaele Rauso, Luigi Rugge, Fabrizio Chirico, Giovanni Francesco Nicoletti, Romolo Fragola, Pierfrancesco Bove, Nicola Zerbinati, Giorgio Lo Giudice

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Application of an interactive diagnosis ranking algorithm in a simulated vignette-based environment for general dermatology

Antonia Wesinger, Elisabeth Riedl, Harald Kittler, Philipp Tschandl

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Evaluation of MCV/RDW Ratio and Correlations with Ferritin in Telogen Effluvium Patients

Saadet İbiş, Gülhan Aksoy Saraç, Turan Akdağ

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Cutaneous Manifestations and Their Corresponding Dermoscopic Features in Patients with Dermatomyositis

Joana Pozharashka, Ljubka Miteva, Lyubomir Dourmishev

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Dermoscopic evaluation of extragenital lichen sclerosus et atrophicus

Sunanda Arun Mahajan, Jayati Shailesh Dave

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Facial dermatoses in patients with blepharitis: a cross-sectional prospective analysis.

Şafak Çulfa, Semih Güder

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Retrospective Analysis of Dermatological Diseases in Geriatric Patients During Dermatology Outpatient Department Visits

Gulhan Aksoy Sarac, Mehmet Ali Can Emeksiz, Onur Acar, Ersin Nazlıcan, Efsun Tanacan, Tufan Nayir

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Dermatoscopy in the Diagnostics of Incontinentia Pigmenti Skin Lesions

Snezana Minic, Danijela Dobrosavljevic, Jovan Lalosevic, Dusan Trpinac

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An updated algorithm integrated with patient data for the differentiation of atypical nevi from early melanomas: the idScore 2021

Linda Tognetti, Alessandra Cartocci, Martina Bertello, Mafalda Giordani, Elisa Cinotti, Gabriele Cevenini, Pietro Rubegni

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Comparison of early (EOP) and late onset psoriasis (LOP) regarding systemic inflammatory comorbidities: LOP is a more rapid subtype of psoriasis

Leyla Huseynova Terzi, Sibel Dogan Gunaydin

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Comparison of convolutional neural network architectures for robustness against common artefacts in dermatoscopic images

Florian Katsch, Christoph Rinner, Philipp Tschandl

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How are Acne Vulgaris Patients Using Oral Isotretinoin Affected by COVID-19?

Mine Müjde Kuş, Perihan Öztürk, Tutku Bulut, Celal Kuş, Mehmet Enes Güner, Hülya Nazik, Mehmet Kamil Mülayim

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Infantile hemangioma and cardiac defects: a puzzling association. A single center experience

Andrea Bassi, Andrea Azzarelli, Angelina Vaccaro , Carlo Mazzatenta

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Review

Dermoscopy for Cutaneous Melanoma: under the eye of both the dermatologist and the legal doctor

Vittorio Bolcato, Andrea Michelerio

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Research Letter

Square-shaped alopecia after embolization of intracranial aneurysm: case report and review

Jorge Roman-Sainz, Nicolás Silvestre-Torner, Fernando Gruber-Velasco, Belén Romero-Jiménez, Alejandro Lobato-Berezo, Adrián Imbernón-Moya

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Clinical, dermoscopic and radiological features of heel stick calcinosis cutis

Keshavmurthy A. Adya, Arun C. Inamadar

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Agminated Nevi Of The Foot With Checkerboard And Blaschkoid Distribution

Vito Ingordo, Nicola Licci, Stefano Caccavale, Gerardo Ferrara

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Eccrine porocarcinoma arising from an eccrine poroma: case report

Ingrid Silveira, Gabriela Siliprandi Lorenz Sartori, Andre da Silva Cartell, Thaís Corsetti Grazziotin

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Calcinosis cutis in association with long-term stasis after electrical burn injury: a case report

Belkiz Uyar, Ömer Faruk Elmas, Emine Müge Acar, Sümeyra Has

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Cutaneous spitzoid melanoma in childhood after acute lymphocytic leukemia

Beatriz Ferreira do Prado Bassetti, Sergio Albertini Daiuto, Gilles Landman, Francisco Macedo Paschoal

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Dermoscopy of cutaneous neurocristic hamartoma and report of its rare clinical presentation

Dincy Peter, Priya Kuryan, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Meera Thomas

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A pink nodule with white halo: dermoscopy of halo melanoma

Francesco Borgia, Luca Di Bartolomeo, Marialorena Coppola, Maria Lentini, Elvira Moscarella, Mario Vaccaro

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Unusual Presentation of Kaposi Sarcoma During Adalimumab Therapy: A Case Report

Gulsun-Hazan Tabak, Basak Yalici-Armagan, Burkay-Adem Sahin, Ozay Gokoz, Sedat Kiraz

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Is a triggering role or a causative role of PD-1/PDL-1 inhibitors in the development of paraneoplastic dermatomyositis?

Michela Starace, Francesca Pampaloni, Miriam Anna Carpanese, Andrea Sechi, Francesca Bruni, Aurora Alessandrini

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Dermoscopic View of Papular Acantholytic Dyskeratosis (PAD) of the Genitocrural Region

Dua Cebeci, Ilkay Can, Ibrahim Kobat

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Butterfly sign in scabies: towards an evolutionary process?

Teresa Oranges, Fausto Andrea Pedaci, Cesare Filippeschi

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Lymphoma developing in a patient with long-term antitumor necrosis factor therapy

Giovana Serrão Fensterseifer, André Vicente Esteves de Carvalho, Ana Letícia Boff, Joel Schwartz

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Dermoscopy of pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia tattoo reaction pattern: A potential mimicker of squamous cell carcinoma

Biswanath Behera, Rashmi Kumari, Debasis Gochhait, Pavithra Ayyanar

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Dermoscopy performs an important role to diagnose radiation-induced angiosarcoma on the breast

Gabriel Tagata Seleri, Marina Riedi Guilherme, Ana Lúcia de Oliveira Prestes, Cássio Rafael Moreira

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A case of adult-onset facial cutaneous mastocytoma: clinical and dermoscopic findings

Matteo Megna, Massimiliano Scalvenzi, Sonia Sofía Ocampo Garza, Gabriella Fabbrocini, Elisa Camela

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Image Letter

Dermoscopy for facial leukotrichia in vitiligo: An important step for a better treatment decision

Mohammed Ibrahim AlJasser

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Iridescent changes observed during dynamic cross-polarized dermoscopy

John Paoli, Lykke Barck, Eva Johansson Backman, Ashfaq Marghoob, Sam Polesie

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Dermoscopy as a supportive tool to differentiate lichen amyloidosus from clinical mimickers

Esteban Maronna, Emilia Noemi Cohen Sabban, Enzo Errichetti, Horacio A. Cabo

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Retiform Hemagioendothelioma: Dermoscopic-pathological corelation

Saurabh Mittal, Naimah Aljassem

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Pilar leiomyomas: New dermoscopic pattern

Meryem Soughi, Fatima Zahra Mernissi

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An Exuberant Case of Retentional Acne: Chloracne

Philippe Visintainer Melo, Gabriela Fortes Escobar

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“Oak-leaf-like” loop vessels in super-high magnification dermoscopy of basal cell carcinoma

Joanna Pogorzelska-Dyrbuś

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A solitary nodule over the chest

Gitesh Sawatkar, Nisha Meshram, Keshavamurthy Vinay

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Inflammatory Vitiligo

Hua-Ching Chang, Chun-Yu Lai, Yin-Shuo Chang

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Dermoscopy of Atrophic Dermatofibroma, a Rare Variant

Tugba Kevser Ustunbas Uzuncakmak, Bengu Cobanoglu Simsek

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A case of melanoma in a patient with psoriasis highlighting the importance of dermatoscopy and inflammoscopy.

Sarah Benton, Lori Ann Fiessinger, Juan Pablo Jaimes

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A Particular Bicentric Structure in Dermoscopy of Degos Disease

Anqi Li, Rouyu Fang, Qiuning Sun

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Perinevoid alopecia: an unusual presentation of alopecia areata

Jose Leonardo Rodrigues Machado, Rita Fernanda Cortez de Almeida, Simone Carolina Frattini, Daniel Fernandes Melo

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