Masaru Tanaka

..It is always useful to imagine dermatopathological features when examining a dermoscopic image. There are considerable relations between dermoscopy and dermatopathology...

..These also achieved good detection accuracy as indicated by their AUC values: 0.985, 0.931, and 0.890, respectively. The features used in the melanoma-nevus classifier and the parallel ridge detector have significant overlap...

..There are no standarized guidelines for treatment; each case requires an individualized approach. We review the literature and present an algorithm to aid in approaching such patients...

..9% and a specificity of 86.0% on a set of 1258 non-acral dermoscopy images and a sensitivity of 93.3% and a specificity of 91.1% on a set of 199 acral volar dermoscopy images using a leave-one-out cross-validation...

..We also confirmed that our method successfully modifies the color distribution of a given image to make it closer to the color distribution of the training image set...

..0% and a specificity of 86.6% in a set of 107 non-melanocytic and 548 melanocytic dermoscopy images using a cross-validation test...

..It can be concluded that our computer-based tumour extraction algorithm extracted almost the same area as that obtained by dermatologists and provided improved computer-based diagnostic accuracy...

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..Dermatologists should be aware of these ultra-structural findings because this disease may occur sporadically and might be more common than initially thought...

..We describe an unusual case of hidradenoma papilliferum on the chest of a man and discuss the rare sites of the tumor...

..The accompanying panniculitis in our case was considered to be unique and somehow different from morphea profunda or lupus erythematosus profundus...

..In particular, the use of AGIs for patients treated with immunosuppressive agents such as corticosteroids requires evaluation...

..Dermoscopic features of nonpigmented skin lesions are seldom reported; dermoscopy might be useful in speculating pathologic features in the upper dermis...

..75 mm) and Clark naevi, and 73.9 and 85.6%, respectively, for discriminating between melanoma in situ and Clark naevi. Our algorithm accurately discriminated invasive melanomas from Clark naevi, but not melanomas in situ from Clark naevi...

..A diagnosis of eccrine porocarcinoma arising in a pigmented hidroacanthoma simplex was eventually established, and the dermoscopic features of eccrine porocarcinoma from hidroacanthoma simplex was described for the first time...

..Therefore, after having changed the antihypertensive agent, oral itraconazole (100 mg/day) was administered for 16 weeks, which was effective clinically and mycologically...

..For treating crusted scabies, concomitant administration of oral ivermectin and the topical preparation is necessary. Some safe and useful topical drug preparations are needed to be approved by health insurance...

..These characteristics are considered important in developing grafts for use in the treatment of human skin wounds...

..To determine the predictive dermoscopic features of amelanotic and hypomelanotic melanoma...

..53). CONCLUSION: The virtual Consensus Net Meeting on Dermoscopy represents a valid tool for better standardization of the dermoscopic terminology and, moreover, opens up a new territory for diagnosing and managing pigmented skin lesions...

..Teledermoscopy represents a useful tool for the diagnosis of acral melanoma and for the categorization of patterns that suggest benign or potentially malignant acral melanocytic lesions...

..2, P = 0.01). C. pneumoniae could play an important role in the mechanism of restenosis and evaluation of the IgG seropositivity, and may help to identify patients at high risk for restenosis...

..measured by gravimetric analysis. This study is the first to report the detailed concentration profile of each water component whose sorption kinetics is discussed comprehensively...