A trend in medical schools across the United States is the refurbishing of histology laboratories with digital microscopy systems. Although such systems may reduce curricular time, they do not teach b...
BACKGROUND: Patients with acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) seem to have a poor prognosis. ALMs represent 4-10% of cutaneous melanomas in white populations. Surgery is mostly based on conventional hist...
Forty-six patients presenting with lesions clinically suspicious of leprosy were selected among patients attending the outpatient department (OPD) of our Institute. The lesions were biopsied deeply fo...
BACKGROUND: Conventional surgery for lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) is based on normal histological evaluation. However, such evaluation leaves diagnostic gaps. In contrast, complete three-dimensional...
The present author gives a survey on the development of microscopy by centuries: 16th Invention of the simple microscope--at the end of the century the compound microscope was invented. 17th HOOKE's m...