Research in Dermoscopy: The Best Is Yet to Come!

摘要

It is not easy to precisely define when dermoscopy was “invented.” The first description of the idea of in-vivo direct skin microscopy goes back to 1950 when Leon Goldman applied it to detect cutaneous filariae [1]. As he extended his research to the in-vivo microscopic examination of nevi, he provided the first pieces of evidence on the potential of this method to uncover clinically invisible morphologic structures of skin tumors [2].