Epidemiology of Lentigo Maligna and Lentigo Maligna Melanoma in the Netherlands, 1989–2013
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Lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma.
Lentigo maligna (LM) is a pigmented lesion that occurs on the sun-exposed skin, particularly the head and neck areas, of an older patient. The lesion increases in size and at some point, often many years after its onset, may become lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM). For this reason, most authors consider LM a form of melanoma in situ. Treatment includes surgical or destructive modalities; the pref...
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Lentigo maligna (LM) and lentigo-maligna melanoma (LMM) are pigmented skin lesions that may exist on a continuous clinical and pathological spectrum of melanocytic skin cancer. LM is often described as a "benign" lesion and is accepted as a melanoma in situ; LM can undergo malignant transformation to particularly aggressive melanoma. LMM is an invasive melanoma that shares properties of LM, as ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Investigative Dermatology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0022-202X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2016.06.014