Dermatopathology for residents

How informative are dermatopathology requisition forms completed by residents of dermatology?

Background: Accurate clinical information provided on dermatopathology requisition forms is often very important to achieve correct diagnosis. We searched to evaluate the clinical information actually provided on the Dermatopathology requisition forms of melanocytic lesions submitted to our laboratory. Method: The provided clinical information and given microscopic diagnoses were recorded for m...

Dermatopathology comes to life!

Citation: Kittler H. Dermatopathology comes to life! [editorial]. Dermatol Pract conc. 2012;2(1):1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5826/dpc.0201a01. Copyright: ©2012 Kittler. this is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Pediatric dermatopathology: an overview.

Dermatopathology is a subspecialty of pathology and dermatology involving correlation of clinical information with microscopic observations of skin biopsies to provide diagnostic information. Pediatric dermatology is a subspecialty of dermatology for which specific points need to be known for evaluating and managing skin disorders in children. The histopathological approach and other important ...

Molecular Dermatopathology in Malignant Melanoma

At present, immunohistochemistry is taken for granted in the establishment of malignant melanoma (MM) diagnosis. In recent years, molecular diagnosis in dermatopathology has benefited from a vast array of advances in the fields of genomics and proteomics. Sensitive techniques are available for detecting specific DNA and RNA sequences by molecular hybridization. This paper intends to update meth...

International Board Certification in Dermatopathology: a worldwide effort to raise standards in dermatopathology.