In 1933 Hinselman proposed the use of
colposcope for high-power examination of skin and
mucosal lesionsm and Goldman in 1951's) systematically
used surface microscopy as a diagnostic procedure.
Then it was forgotten for almost twenty
years being used almost exclusively for nail bed
capillary microscopy(9-'°. Skin microscopy for pigmented
skin lesions was revived in 1971 by
Mackie" who invited attempts to increase the resolution
of the eye in clinical diagnosis by using ELM.
In 1981 Fritsch and Pechlaner improved the technique
and emphasised its potential importance in the
differentiation of pigmented lesions". Since then
there has been considerable application of the
method especially in Western Europe'''.