Optical coherence tomography for diagnosing skin cancer in adults.

CONCLUSIONS: Insufficient data are available on the use of OCT for the detection of melanoma or cSCC. Initial data suggest conventional OCT may have a role for the diagnosis of BCC in clinically challenging lesions, with our meta-analysis showing a higher sensitivity and higher specificity when compared to visual inspection plus dermoscopy. However, the small number of studies and varying methodological quality means implications to guide practice cannot currently be drawn.Appropriately designed prospective comparative studies are required, given the paucity of data comparing OCT with dermoscopy and other similar diagnostic aids such as reflectance confocal microscopy.
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Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - December 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ferrante di Ruffano L, Dinnes J, Deeks JJ, Chuchu N, Bayliss SE, Davenport C, Takwoingi Y, Godfrey K, O'Sullivan C, Matin RN, Tehrani H, Williams HC, Cochrane Skin Cancer Diagnostic Test Accuracy Group Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research