Nine per cent of biopsy‐proven lentigo maligna lesions are reclassified as lentigo maligna melanoma after surgery
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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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Thirty-eight cases of lentigo maligna and 22 cases of lentigo maligna melanoma, were reviewed in order to compare cure rates of various methods of treatment. Surgical excision resulted in the best cure rate (91%); destructive modalities were less successful (45%). All lesions treated with 5% 5-fluorouracil recurred.
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متن کاملLentigo maligna melanoma--the review.
Lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) is a slowly growing tumor of elderly white population. It typically develops on chronically sun-exposed skin of the head and neck area which indicates that the cumulative exposure to the UV radiation has crucial role in the development of LMM. Precursor lesion is lentigo maligna (LM) which commonly presents as an irregular brownish pigmented macular lesion persist...
متن کاملSurgical margins for lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma: the technique of mapped serial excision.
OBJECTIVES To assess the margins required for excision of lentigo maligna (LM) and lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) by the technique of mapped serial excision (MSE), and to assess the efficacy of MSE. DESIGN An interventional, prospective, noncontrolled case series. SETTING Tertiary referral, dermatologic surgery unit. PATIENTS Consecutive patients with head and neck LM or LMM who underwent...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Dermatology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0007-0963,1365-2133
DOI: 10.1111/bjd.17714