Dermatoscopy of a Pigmented Lesion

Dermatoscopy of a Pigmented Lesion is a focused version of skin examination for when a patient is concerned about one specific mole or pigmented spot rather than wanting the whole skin surveyed. Dermatoscopy is a non-invasive technique that magnifies the lesion and illuminates it with controlled, often polarised, light so the oncologist can see structures in the upper skin layers — pigment networks, dots, streaks and vascular patterns — that cannot be…

At Onkologie Bona Dea the assessment is carried out with a DermLite DL III, a professional handheld dermatoscope from 3GEN (USA). Because the device can be connected through an adapter to a digital camera, the lesion can be photographed, archived and compared at a future visit — the key advantage when a mole needs to be monitored for change over time, since a documented baseline makes subtle evolution easier to detect. The examination of a single lesion…

This single-lesion option suits someone who has noticed one mole that is new, changing, itching or otherwise worrying and wants it professionally assessed, or who wants a documented baseline image of a particular lesion. If several lesions or the whole skin should be checked, the clinic's fuller 800 Kč Skin Examination with Dermatoscopy is the more appropriate choice; otherwise each additional lesion looked at in the same visit is added at 70 Kč. As a…