Terminology Dots
From dermoscopedia
Descriptive terminology | Metaphoric terminology | Significance |
dots any color | granularity or granules | various diagnoses |
dots gray | peppering | Melanoma LPLK |
dots gray and circles gray | annular-granular pattern | lentigo maligna |
dots or clods white clustered or disseminated | milia like cysts cloudy or starry | SK |
dots white four arranged in a square* | rosettes | various diagnoses but mainly AK SCC actinic damaged skin |
dots peripheral arranged in lines | linear dots | pigmented Bowen disease |
dots brown central (in the center of hypopigmented spaces between reticular lines) | targetoid dots | congenital nevi |