Open AccessSkin scraping
Author(s) -
Tagesu Abdisa
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of veterinary science and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2640-7604
DOI - 10.17352/ijvsr.s1.108
Subject(s) - medicine , epidermis (zoology) , dermatology , pathology , anatomy
Skin scrapings are part of the basic database for all skin diseases. There are two types of skin scrapings, superfi cial and deep. Superfi cial scrapings do not cause capillary bleeding and provide information from the surface of the epidermis.