PAPER | STUDY TYPE | PHYSICIAN BACKGROUND | SOURCE OF LESIONS | NAKED-EYE CRITERIA | DERMOSCOPY ALGORITHM | REFERENCE TEST |
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Argenziano et al22 | RCT | Primary care physicians, dermoscopy nonusers | Patients in clinic examined by dermatoscope | ABCD rule for melanoma and clinical criteria for BCC and SCC | 3-point checklist | Evaluated by dermoscopy experts, biopsies of suspicious lesions |
Westerhoff et al23 | RCT | Primary care physicians, dermoscopy nonusers | Clinical photographs and surface microscopic photographs at × 10 magnification using oil | Not specified | Menzies method | Lesions histopathologically diagnosed |
Menzies et al24 | Sequential intervention trial of within-lesion controls | Primary care physicians, dermoscopy nonusers | Patients in clinic examined by dermatoscope | Not specified | Menzies method | Evaluated by dermoscopy experts, biopsies of suspicious lesions |
Dolianitis et al25 | Within-subjects design using counterbalance technique | Most were primary care physicians (35/61), all dermoscopy nonusers | Clinical macroscopic photographs and dermoscopic images at × 10 magnification | Not specified | 7-point checklist; Menzies method; ABCD rule; pattern analysis | Images from a photograph bank of melanoma and nonmelanoma lesions |
BCC—basal cell carcinoma, RCT—randomized controlled trial, SCC—squamous cell carcinoma.