Reflectance confocal microscopy as a second‐level examination in skin oncology improves diagnostic accuracy and saves unnecessary excisions: a longitudinal prospective study

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Abstract

Reflectance confocal microscopy as a second-level examination to dermatoscopy proved to be highly accurate in diagnosis and reduced the number of unnecessary excisions. Improved accuracy, considering that RCM enabled the detection of the six melanomas (2%) in the group of 308 lesions eligible for follow-up, also minimizes the risk of referring a melanoma to digital dermatoscopy monitoring, and potentially losing the patient to follow-up.

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