Background: Dermoscopy improves melanoma recognition, but most criteria were described in the context of superficial spreading melanoma.
Objectives: To test whether pigmented nodular melanoma could be recognized dermoscopically by the presence of a combination of blue and black color within the lesion.
Methods: Dermoscopic images of histopathologically diagnosed pigmented nodular tumors with no (or only minimal) flat component were evaluated for the presence of standard melanoma criteria and for the presence of a new feature named blue-black (BB) color. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were calculated for standard ...
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