Non-invasive techniques in the clinical diagnosis of cutaneous lymphomas
https://doi.org/10.4081/dr.2023.9814
Accepted: 17 September 2023
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Cutaneous lymphomas can be difficult to be even suspected in the clinical practise as they are simulators of many other dermatological inflammatory ands neoplastic diseases. The support of non-invasive techniques for skin analysis as dermoscopy and reflectance confocal microscopy are still anecdotic. On the practical prospective, as non-invasive techniques showed the potential of identify macro and micro features supporting the clinical suspicious of lymphomas, as they can be useful for differential diagnosis, and can support the biopsy site selection, a deeper and more spread study including large number of cases focusing on their effective usefulness merits to be considered. In this manuscript we report a narrative concise overview on dermoscopy and reflectance confocal microscopy features of cutaneous lymphomas.
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