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'''.