id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_32stwavbdzevtnpqvljowbaz2y Carlos Eduardo Goulart Silveira Digital photography in skin cancer screening by mobile units in remote areas of Brazil 2014.0 5 .pdf application/pdf 4336 426 58 Teledermatology provides a new tool for monitoring skin cancer, especially in countries with a large area and This study sought to evaluate the performance of digital photography in skin cancer diagnosis in remote areas of Brazil. Methods: A physician in a Mobile Prevention Unit (MPU) took four hundred sixteen digital images of suspicious lesions Cancer Hospital who blindly evaluated the images and provided a diagnosis (benign or malignant). Conclusions: Given the high sensitivity and PPV, Teledermatology seems to be a suitable tool for skin cancer screening decided to utilize the existing telecommunication technology and evaluate the accuracy of digital imaging in diagnosing skin cancer in remote areas of Brazil. The present study included individuals with skin lesions that were determined to be suspicious after a direct visual inspection by a physician between April 2010 The oncologists' performance in predicting skin cancer using the digital images was evaluated on ./cache/work_32stwavbdzevtnpqvljowbaz2y.pdf ./txt/work_32stwavbdzevtnpqvljowbaz2y.txt