Dermoscopic criteria explained by LC-OCT: Negative maple leaf-like areas

Gerardo Palmisano^{1

2}, Carmen Orte Cano^{1

3}, Margot Fontaine^{1

3}, Clément Lenoir^{1

3}, Elisa Cinotti^{4

5}, Linda Tognetti⁵, Pietro Rubegni⁵, Javiera Perez-Anker^{6

7}, Susana Puig^{6

7}, Josep Malvehy^{6

7}, Jean-Luc Perrot⁸, Véronique Del Marmol¹, Ketty Peris^{2

9}, Mariano Suppa^{1

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Hôpital Erasme, HUB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
² Department of Dermatology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
³ Department of Dermato-Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, HUB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Groupe d'Imagerie Cutanée Non Invasive (GICNI) of the Société Française de Dermatologie (SFD), Paris, France.
⁵ Dermatology Unit, Department of Medical, Surgical and Neurological Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
⁶ Melanoma Unit, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ CIBER de Enfermedades Raras, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁹ UOC di Dermatologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche Addominali ed Endocrino-Metaboliche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

Gerardo Palmisano et al. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2024 Mar.

. 2024 Mar;38(3):e271-e273.

doi: 10.1111/jdv.19588. Epub 2023 Nov 12.

¹ Department of Dermatology, Hôpital Erasme, HUB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
² Department of Dermatology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
³ Department of Dermato-Oncology, Institut Jules Bordet, HUB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Groupe d'Imagerie Cutanée Non Invasive (GICNI) of the Société Française de Dermatologie (SFD), Paris, France.
⁵ Dermatology Unit, Department of Medical, Surgical and Neurological Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
⁶ Melanoma Unit, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ CIBER de Enfermedades Raras, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁹ UOC di Dermatologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche Addominali ed Endocrino-Metaboliche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

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