Dermoscopic assessment of xerosis severity, pigmentation pattern and vascular morphology in subjects with physiological aging and photoaging

Skin aging can be classified as either physiological or pathological aging. Pathological aging is most often due to chronic sunlight exposure (photoaging). Age-dependent changes in dermoscopic features of normal skin have not previously been well defined.We compared the dermoscopic features of skin from non-elderly subjects, elderly subjects with physiological aging, and elderly subjects with photoaging.We enrolled 40 non-elderly subjects aged...