1st Edition
INTERNATIONAL
MASTERCLASS
Rome, Italy
September 7th – 9th, 2023
Scientific Coordinators: Prof Bianca Maria Piraccini, Dr Michela Starace
Lessons will be given in English.
1.200 € + VAT

1st Edition
INTERNATIONAL
MASTERCLASS
September 7th – 9th, 2023
Scientific Coordinators: Prof Bianca Maria Piraccini, Dr Michela Starace
Lessons will be given in English.
1.200 € + VAT

1st Edition
INTERNATIONAL
MASTERCLASS
September 7th – 9th, 2023
Scientific Coordinators: Prof Bianca Maria Piraccini, Dr Michela Starace
Lessons will be given in English.
1.200 € + VAT

Dermoscopy is nowadays the most utilized tool to evaluate patients complaining hair loss or nail disease.
Trichoscopy refers to dermoscopy of hair and scalp and permits to study hair shafts, follicular ostia, scalp skin, and blood vessels. Trichoscopy allows to evaluate several basic parameters such as the density, the diameter, hair shaft diversity, as well as the presence/absence of follicular ostia, the scalp vessels changes and other signs of hair disorders. Trichoscopy also helps clinician to predict the activity of the disease and to evaluate the response to treatments. A further use of trichoscopy is to guide the choice of the appropriate site for scalp biopsy in cases needing a histopathological evaluation.
Onychoscopy, or nail dermoscopy, was initially suggested for the assessment of nail melanocytic lesions, but it use has gradually been extended to the evaluation of all nail dystrophies, becoming a routine diagnostic instrument. In daily practice, onychoscopy is used to reinforce presumptive clinical diagnoses, as well as to guide the management of different nail diseases. In most cases nail dermoscopy only permits a better visualization of symptoms already evident to the naked eye.
However, in a few diseases, the technique can provide important diagnostic information. Nail dermoscopy can study all visible parts of the nail unit, but can also be utilized to observe the nail matrix, the only non-visible nail epithelium, in conjunction with intra-operative methods.
A correct trichoscopy or onychoscopy assessment of the patient requires a good knowledge of both the technique and the physiology of hair and nails.
This masterclass is aimed to provide the necessary knowledge and hail and nail physiology that allows good comprehension of the trichoscopy and onychoscopy signs. Understanding the pathophysiology of the different dermoscopy sign will then allow easy diagnosis and management of the diseases of skin appendages.
International Dermoscopy Society AUSPICES CERTIFICATE
Objectives
1
The first part of the masterclass will cover the techniques to correctly perform hair and nail dermoscopy; the attendees will then perform in vivo this exam on the scalp and nails.
2
The second part will be devoted to the dermoscopy study of normal scalp and nail and the explanation of the basic onychoscopy and trichoscopy signs.
3
The last part will cover the main features of the most commonly encountered hair and nail diseases.
Program
8.30 Participants registration
9.00 MODULE 1: Intro
Trichoscopy techniques
Onychoscopy techniques
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 MODULE 2: Basic trichoscopy signs
Shaft
Ostia
Skin
Vessels
13.00 Light Lunch
14.00 MODULE 3: Basic onychoscopy signs
Surface
Color
Detachment
Distal margin
Periungual tissues
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 MODULE 4: Specific trichoscopy and onychoscopy
Pull test trichoscopy
Onychoscopy after removal onycholitic nail plate
Capillaroscopy
Trichoscopy guided-biopsy
18.00 Conclusion
9.00 MODULE 5: Non cicatricial alopecia
Alopecia areata
Androgenetic alopecia
Telogen effluvium
Tricotillomania
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 MODULE 6: Cicatricial alopecia
LPP and its variants
Discioid lupus erythematosus and connectivitis
Folliculitis decalvans
13.00 Light lunch
14.00 MODULE 7: Scaly conditions
Tinea capitis
Psoriasis
Seborrheic dermatitis
Scalp eczema
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 MODULE 8: Uncommon alopecia
Dissecting cellulitis
Erosive pustulosis of the scalp
Hair diseases typical of children
18.00 Conclusion
9.00 MODULE 9: Inflammatory nail diseases
Psoriasis
Parakeratosis pustulosa
Lichen planus
Lichen striatus
Contact dermatitis
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 MODULE 10: Infective nail diseases
Viral diseases
Bacterial diseases
Mycotic diseases
Parasitic diseases
13.00 Light lunch
14.00 MODULE 11: Nail tumors
Benign nail tumors
Malignant nail tumors
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 MODULE 12: Case-based summary
18.00 Conclusion – Final Ceremony
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