Abstract
Digital mucous cysts (DMC) are common benign myxoid cysts typically located on the fingers and toes. Recently, dermoscopic patterns of DMC were reported. However, only a small number of cases were described in the published work; therefore, information on this topic is scarce in the published work. We investigated dermoscopic patterns of histopathologically diagnosed DMC. In total, 23 cases were enrolled in this study. Polarized dermoscopy revealed vascular patterns in 13 cases (56.5%), with arborizing vascular patterns, dotted vessels, linear vessels and polymorphous vessels in eight (34.8%), three (13.0%), one (4.3%) and one (4.3%) case, respectively. Red-purple lacunas, ulceration, nail dystrophy and white shiny structures were detected in five (21.7%), two (8.7%), seven (30.4%) and six cases (26.1%), respectively. We report the largest case series regarding dermoscopic features of DMC to date. Dermoscopy can be used as a helpful adjuvant and non-invasive tool in the diagnosis of DMC.
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