Inexpensive digital photography in clinical dermatology and dermatologic surgery

Digital photography can be used to follow clinical improvement in a variety of dermatoses, document pre and postoperative results, and document histol ogic findings from skin biopsies. Images may be printed as part of text doc uments and can be filed in conventional medical charts. Images can be trans mitted via electronic mail rapidly and to any location. We have found digit al photography to be relatively inexpensive and a powerful tool to enhance dermatologic practice.