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. 2014 Jan 31;4(1):59–66. doi: 10.5826/dpc.0401a09

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Copyright: ©2014 Rosendahl et al.

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Figure 1. — Schematic representation (left) and dermatoscopic image of examples (right) of the eight types of vessel structure defined in revised pattern analysis. The closest equivalent metaphoric term, when different, is italicized in brackets and the diagnosis of the lesion is in brackets at the end: (A) dots (melanoma); (B) clods (lacunes)(hemangioma); (C) lines straight (ulcerated BCC); (D) lines looped (hairpin vessels)(SCC); (E) lines curved (comma vessels)(dermal nevus); (F) lines serpentine (linear irregular vessels) (BCC); (G) lines helical (corkscrew vessels)(IEC); (H) lines coiled (glomerular vessels)(IEC). [Copyright: ©2014 Rosendahl et al.]

Abbreviations used: BCC- basal cell carcinoma; SCC—squamous cell carcinoma; IEC—intraepidermal squamous cell carcinoma.