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CLEVELAND — In this video, Jennifer Ko, MD, PhD, discusses different testing options for melanotic lesions including gene expression profiling and sequencing.

Uncommon variants of cutaneous melanoma do not have the classic clinical appearance and dermoscopic criteria for diagnosis, according to a systematic review published in JAMA Dermatology.

Numerous barriers prevent the common use of fungal preparations in the dermatology setting, such as the belief that clinical diagnosis is sufficient and the lack of a required Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment certification, along with the notion that it is difficult to obtain, according to recent survey findings.

Melanoma probability scores increased due to standard skin markings from surgical ink and were associated with a significant reduction in the specificity of a convolutional neural network trained in dermoscopic images, according to an analysis in JAMA Dermatology.

The American Academy of Dermatology supports the collaborative development of augmented intelligence that is designed and evaluated in a manner that enables the delivery of high-quality patient care, the AAD wrote in its augmented intelligence position statement.

In vitiligo, visualization and accentuation of lesions using blue light emitted from a smartphone was comparable to a Wood’s lamp and may be useful in resource-poor settings where a lamp is not available, according to researchers.

Handheld reflectance confocal microscopy with radial video mosaicing showed utility in mapping lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma.