Cutaneous Adnexal Tumors: The Diagnostic Role Of Dermatoscopic Examination

Abstract

We have read with great interest the original article by Aslan Kayıran et al., which was recently published in the Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences [1]. In their retrospective study, the authors investigated the clinical and histopathological characteristics of the patients with cutaneous adnexal tumors. They compared the clinical preliminary diagnoses and the final histopathological diagnoses of the cases to reveal the success of the clinicians in diagnosing cutaneous adnexal tumors. The results showed that clinical prediagnoses and histopathological diagnoses were compatible in 45% of the 65 patients, while they were contradictory in 51%. The authors concluded that cutaneous adnexal tumors should be included in the differential diagnosis list, particularly in the presence of cutaneous papulonodular lesions without specific features and that a histopathological examination must be done in suspicious cases to reach a definitive diagnosis [1]. Here, we would like to shortly discuss the contribution of dermatoscopic examination to diagnostic accuracy in cutaneous adnexal tumors.