The importance of digital dermoscopy in follow-up of melanocytic lesions to the early diagnosis of melanoma
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digital dermoscopy, melanomaAbstract
Digital dermoscopy is a tool that allows the early diagnosis of melanomas, through the long-term follow up of pigmentary skin lesions. We report three cases of patients with high-risk of melanoma, in which the diagnosis had been made by morphological, arquitectural and pigmentary changes observed by the digital dermoscopy follow-up
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