Diascopy

The slides copy is a term used in dermatology. It is it an investigation technique of skin. Here, a skin redness (erythema) is pushed away in order to assess the intrinsic color of the skin with a glass spatula. Today is the glass spatula made ​​of plastic to avoid injury from breakage of the blade. Through a printed centimeter scale simultaneous measuring of lesions is possible. Often a magnifying glass built into the blade.

The Diascopy finds application in red stains to exclude hemorrhage, tuberculoid or sarcoid infiltrates to assess the Eigeninfiltrates, black - blue tumors to exclude a vascular tumor (malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma ), basal cell carcinoma to assess the " perlschnurartigen " side seam, Lymphocytoma cutis benigna ( Lyme Lyme disease among others lymphocytic infiltrates ) to assess the Tiefeninfiltrates.