Reflectance confocal microscopy with standard care for melanoma reduces excisions
Source: Healio, July 2022
Adjunctive use of reflectance confocal microscopy for suspect melanoma lesions reduces unnecessary excisions, according to results from a clinical trial published in JAMA Dermatology.
Giovanni Pellacani, MD, of Sapienza University of Rome, and colleagues wrote that reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) enables in vivo cutaneous examination, high diagnostic accuracy and specificity improvements for equivocal lesions.
They noted that RCM also appears to be more accurate than dermoscopy alone (82% vs. 42%) and improves the accuracy of benign recognition for equivocal lesions.