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• BIOPSY PUNCH skin punches
• CURETTE ring curettes
• Biopsy techniques
• Curettage techniques
• Information on the skin biopsy
  • Introduction
  • Historical Background
  • Biopsy Techniques
    • The Punch Biopsy
    • The Spindle Biopsy
    • The Sharp Spoon
    • The Shave Biopsy
    • Advantages of the Sharp Biopsy
  • The basis of dermatopathology
    • Fixing the tissue
    • Orientation of the tissue at the laboratory
    • Histopathological assessment
  • The timing of the biopsy
    • Neoplasias
    • Inflammatory dermatoses
    • Performing multiple biopsies
    • Avoiding secondarily-altered lesions
  • Site of the biopsy
    • Aesthetic aspects
    • Other aspects
    • Selecting the biopsy site in partial biopsies
    • Direct immune fluorescence
  • Selecting the biopsy technique
    • Benign epithelial tumours
    • Excision biopsy of malignant tumours
    • Partial biopsy of malignant tumours
    • The contingent relationship between biopsy size and differential clinical diagnosis
    • Biopsy of inflammatory dermatoses
    • Biopsy of the panniculitis
  • The importance of the clinical-histopathological correlation
  • References
• STEIEFEL World website
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• Information for dermatologists
• Information for gynaecologists
• Information for implantologists
• Information for urologists