Differential Diagnosis and Management on Seborrheic Keratosis in Elderly Patients

Seborrheic keratoses are exceedingly common in the elderly and usually are easy to diagnose and do not require treatment. However, given their great variety of clinical presentation, they may give rise to false-positive cases, meaning that they may at times mimic melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma an...

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Autores principales: Moscarella, Elvira, Brancaccio, Gabriella, Briatico, Giulia, Ronchi, Andrea, Piana, Simonetta, Argenziano, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33953590
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S267246
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author Moscarella, Elvira
Brancaccio, Gabriella
Briatico, Giulia
Ronchi, Andrea
Piana, Simonetta
Argenziano, Giuseppe
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description Seborrheic keratoses are exceedingly common in the elderly and usually are easy to diagnose and do not require treatment. However, given their great variety of clinical presentation, they may give rise to false-positive cases, meaning that they may at times mimic melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma. On the other hand, melanoma may mimic seborrheic keratosis, leading to incorrect patient management. With this review, we would like to summarize the current knowledge about epidemiology, clinical, dermoscopic and reflectance confocal microscopy imaging of this common entity, and we also summarize the currently available treatment options.
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spelling pubmed-80889802021-05-04 Differential Diagnosis and Management on Seborrheic Keratosis in Elderly Patients Moscarella, Elvira Brancaccio, Gabriella Briatico, Giulia Ronchi, Andrea Piana, Simonetta Argenziano, Giuseppe Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol Review Seborrheic keratoses are exceedingly common in the elderly and usually are easy to diagnose and do not require treatment. However, given their great variety of clinical presentation, they may give rise to false-positive cases, meaning that they may at times mimic melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma. On the other hand, melanoma may mimic seborrheic keratosis, leading to incorrect patient management. With this review, we would like to summarize the current knowledge about epidemiology, clinical, dermoscopic and reflectance confocal microscopy imaging of this common entity, and we also summarize the currently available treatment options. Dove 2021-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8088980/ /pubmed/33953590 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S267246 Text en © 2021 Moscarella et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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title_short Differential Diagnosis and Management on Seborrheic Keratosis in Elderly Patients
title_sort differential diagnosis and management on seborrheic keratosis in elderly patients
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