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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Experienced dermatologists using dermoscopy/dermoscopic images had 2.6-fold higher odds of accurate melanoma diagnosis than those who used clinical examination/images. Accuracy in diagnosing skin ...

The number stage of a melanoma tells you how thick it is and whether it has spread. It also tells you whether the top layer of the melanoma looks broken (ulcerated) when looked at under a microscope.

The Breslow thickness describes how deep a melanoma has grown into the layers of skin. Doctors need to know the depth of a melanoma to help stage it. The stage tells you the size of a cancer and if it ...

Screening for hepatitis B and C was negative. Dermoscopy is a non-invasive tool widely used in the diagnosis of skin tumours.1 Recently, its applicability also extended to the field of inflammatory ...

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