Dysplastic nevi first were described over 20 years ago among members of melanoma-prone families (Clark, Reimer, Greene, Ainsworth, & Mastrangelo, 1978; Goldstein, Struewing, Chidambaram ...

Prospectively, the risk that a given nevus will transform into melanoma is unknown. In this epidemiologic study, researchers counted the number of melanomas associated with melanocytic nevi in ...

This person has fair skin that tends to burn instead of tan, which is a risk factor for melanoma. Atypical moles (dysplastic nevi) look different from common moles in that they tend to be larger ...

Five-year recurrence-free survival was 55.1% with nevus-associated acral melanoma (NAAM) vs. 42.3% with de novo acral melanoma (DNAM). Overall 5-year survival was 75.1% vs. 63.2% in the NAAM vs.