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EADV 2010 Congress: Digital follow-up helps in early detection of melanoma

Melanoma is a serious skin malignancy that requires close monitoring. Experience in digital follow-up (DFU) of patients at high risk for melanoma was described by Spanish researchers. The prospective surveillance of 618 patients covered a 10-year period (1999 to 2008) using DFU according to the 2-step method of: i) digital total-body photography and ii) digital dermoscopy. A total of 11,587 skin lesions with a mean 18.75 lesions per patient were monitored for a median duration of 96 months. A total of 1,154 (1.86 per patient) lesions were eventually excised, of which 70% were preregistered and 30% detected only at the excision visit. Ninety-eight lesions (8.5% of excised lesions) in 78 (12.6%) ...