Lentigo maligna melanoma is a melanoma in situ on sun-damaged skin. It is a variably brown-pigmented flat patch on the head or neck of elderly patients. Its growth is generally slow, but it can ...

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Because there are so many issues that need to be taken into account in treating LM, there are many proposed management options (see Table 3). The proposed management options can be grouped loosely ...

Reflectance confocal microscopy had a high negative predictive value and agreement when compared with histopathology for the presurgical margin mapping of lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma.

Secondly, we were not able to analyze the burden of histopathological subtypes of melanoma (like superficial spreading melanoma, nodular melanoma and lentigo maligna melanoma), as disease subtypes are ...

Wenzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Wenzhou, China Background: Melanoma is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. The continuous exploration ...