Level 2 Criteria for BCC Arborizing blood vessels
Level 2: Criteria for BCC • • Arborizing blood vessels (telangiectasias) Leaf-like areas Large blue-gray ovoid nests Multiple blue-gray non-aggregated globules Spoke-wheel-like structures Shiny white areas Ulceration In the absence of a pigment network, these criteria are highly suggestive of BCC.
Pigmenmted BCC • Arborizing telangiectasia (arrows) • Ulceration (arrowheads) • Multiple leaf-like areas (asterisks).
Nodular pigmented BCC • Leaf-like areas • Multiple blue-gray ovoid nests (arrows) • A telangectasia in the right part of the lesion.
• Multiple blue-gray nonaggregated globules (arrows) • Blue-gray ovoid nests, ulceration (asterisks) • Arborized telangiectasia (Arrowheads).
Leaf-like areas
Multiple spokewheel-like structures
Multiple blue gray ovoid nests
Multiple blue-gray globules
Level 3: Criteria for SK • • Multiple milia-like cysts Comedo-like openings Moth-eaten borders Network-like structures “Fissures and ridges” ( gyri and sulci) Fat finger-like structures Light brown fingerprint-like structures
Fat-fingers • They are linear and wide dermoscopic structures corresponding to ridges. • They often appear as short sausage-shaped structures. • Colors of these structures vary from tan/brown, blue and can be hypopigmented. • The name has been given to these structures because their shapes can resemble a straight finger (linear), bent finger (curvi-linear), or finger tip (oval–circular)
• Fat finger-like structures (arrows) and multiple milia-like cysts.
• Multiple milialike cysts (arrows), comedo-like openings (asterisks)and network-like structures (dotted areas) at the periphery.
• Multiple comedolike openings and a crypt in the right part of the lesion(arrows).
• A moth-eaten border (arrows) and multiple milia-like cysts (asterisks).
Milia-like cyst
Early flat SK Finger-prints Moth-eaten border
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