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Table 2.

Diagnoses of referred lesions.

Lesions		Referrer diagnosis^a		Dermatologist diagnosis^a			Pathologist diagnosis^b
		n	Ratio^c (%)	n	Ratio^c (%)	n		Ratio^c (%)
Malignant		235	56.0	130	33.7	56		74.7
	Melanoma	77	18.3	25	6.5	19		25.3
	Basal cell carcinoma	82	19.5	59	15.3	26		34.7
	Squamous cell carcinoma	62	14.8	44	11.4	11		14.7
	Merkel cell carcinoma	0	0	1	0.3	0		0
	Not specified	14	3.3	0	0	0		0
Benign		185	44.2	256	66.3	19		25.3
	Melanocytic nevus	96	22.9	101	26.2	3		4.0
	Vascular lesion	8	1.9	24	6.2	0		0
	Other inflammatory lesion	6	1.4	17	4.4	3		4.0
	Other nonmelanocytic benign lesion	50	11.9	109	28.2	13		17.3
	Not specific	25	6.0	5	0	0		0
Total		420	100	386	100	75		100

^aIn some cases, multiple diagnoses were made for one lesion. Each diagnosis was counted.

^bPathologists only diagnosed lesions that were excised or biopsied.

^cThe ratio is the number of diagnoses of a particular category compared to the total number of diagnoses given.