Mole Mapping – Can you spot a suspicious mole?

Videodermatoscopy is a non-invasive dermatological examination that allows us to monitor at-risk nevi and identify the onset of new lesions., allowing for early diagnosis of melanoma.

Compared to the clinical examination alone and the control of moles in epiluminescence, mapping, which includes photographic archiving on a database, has the advantage of allow for an objective and direct comparison, check after check, of potentially at-risk moles.
Furthermore, the videodermatoscope allows us to view moles and skin lesions with greater magnification and resolution, allowing us to identify suspicious alterations that would otherwise go undetected by clinical evaluation alone.

Epiluminescence mapping of moles, or digital dermoscopy, involves computer-generated macroscopic images of moles and other skin lesions or formations. Dermoscopic images are acquired using a special camera equipped with a lens that is placed on each mole to capture images invisible to the naked eye. The goal is to determine if one or more moles are changing in appearance over time and becoming dangerous, so they can be removed and prevented from developing into melanoma.

To map moles the skin must not be tanned, it is also necessary remove any makeup present in skin areas with moles to be checked.

With a classic mole check, in which the clinical and epiluminescence examination is performed, a clinical judgement is obtained which provides a fairly precise description of what is observed, but which is certainly hardly comparable with a subsequent visit, for example after a year, carried out by another doctor.

La computerized mapping of moles Instead, by the very fact that it provides photographs saved on a database, it allows a direct, objective comparison, check after check, of all the snow lesions considered "at risk". It therefore allows us to do early diagnosis In the case of changes in the appearance of a nevus, it allows, in most cases, to detect those minimal "differences" that might otherwise be missed by the clinical eye alone. Given the large number of lesions and patients they see, it's difficult for a doctor to recall the exact morphology of a lesion, perhaps seen a year earlier. With the help of photographs and a computer, this human "limit" is overcome.