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Mole monitoring system

  • US 6,692,032 B2
  • Filed: 11/28/2001
  • Issued: 02/17/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of monitoring pigmented skin lesions, the method comprising the steps of:

  • entering a date in a first region of multiple regions within a date section of a flexible sheet;

    laying the flexible sheet over a region of skin so that a pigmented skin lesion within the region of skin is visible through a first transparent region of a plurality of transparent regions within a tracing section of the flexible sheet;

    tracing a first outline of the pigmented skin lesion in the first transparent region within the tracing section of the flexible sheet, using an alphanumeric key associating multiple appearance characteristics of pigmented skin lesions to multiple codes, entering at least one code of the multiple codes associated with one or more appearance characteristics of the pigmented skin lesion on a first region of a plurality of regions within an appearance section of the flexible sheet;

    after a time has lapsed in which the outline and/or the appearance characteristics of the pigmented skin lesion may have changed, entering a date in a second region of the multiple regions within the date section of the flexible sheet;

    laying the flexible sheet over the pigmented skin lesion so that the pigmented skin lesion is visible through a second transparent region of the plurality of transparent regions within the tracing section of the flexible sheet;

    tracing a second outline of the pigmented skin lesion in the second transparent region;

    using the alphanumeric key, entering at least one code of the multiple codes associated with one or more appearance characteristics of the pigmented skin lesion on a second region of the regions within the appearance section of the flexible sheet; and

    comparing the second outline of the pigmented skin lesion in the second transparent region of the tracing section with the first outline of the pigmented skin lesion in the first transparent region of the tracing section, and comparing the at least one code entered in the second region of the appearance section with the at least one code entered in the first region of the appearance section.

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