Lentiginous melanoma – should we change the paradigm?

Management of Acral Lentiginous Melanoma

Cutaneous malignant melanoma is the most common cause of mortality from skin cancers in Caucasian populations. The incidence rates of malignant melanoma show considerable varia‐ tion worldwide. Annual incidence rates per 100,000 people vary between about 40 in Australia and New Zealand to about 20 in the United States [1,2]. In contrast, a significantly lower inci‐ dence rate has been reported ...

Progression from Acral Lentiginous Melanoma in situ to Invasive Acral Lentiginous Melanoma.

Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is the most common type of cutaneous melanoma in Asians. The very early stage of ALM demonstrates only a proliferation of a few atypical melanocytes within the epidermis, and has been termed ALM in situ. A 74-year-old male patient presented with a pigmented lesion on the left great toe for 12 years, which had initially showed only a few scattered hyperplastic at...

Acral lentiginous melanoma versus lentigo maligna melanoma among Iraqi patients.

OBJECTIVE To report the different clinical aspects of malignant melanoma and their varieties in Iraqi patients. METHODS We carried out this study in the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq during the period from 1985-2005. Eighteen patients with malignant melanoma were enrolled in this work. The different clinical aspects and histopathological e...

Current Surgical Management of Acral Lentiginous Melanoma

Acral Lentiginous Melanoma: Report of a misdiagnosed case

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