Pigmented Lesion of Neck

An atypical pigmented lesion

BACKGROUND The dermatoscopic features of facial lentigo maligna (LM), facial lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) and acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) have been well described. This is the first description of the dermatoscopic appearance of a clinical series of cutaneous non-facial non-acral lentiginous growth pattern melanomas. OBJECTIVE To describe the dermatoscopic features of a series of cutan...

Pigmented Lesion of Buccal Mucosa

Pigmented lesions are commonly found in the mouth. Such lesions represent a variety of clinical entities, ranging from physiologic changes to manifestation of systemic illness and malignant neoplasm. Diagnosis of such lesions requires a proper case history, extraoral and intraoral examination, and, in some cases, biopsy, aspiration cytology, and laboratory investigations. Here we present a case...

An atypical pigmented lesion—Answer

Pigmented lesion on the ear.

A 65-year-old farmer came to the office with a pigmented lesion on his left ear; the lesion had been there for about 2 years. He noticed different shades of black developing in the lesion during the previous 3 months. On physical examination, we observed a 13 mm x 7 mm asymmetrical dark-brown-to-black papule, with pigment fading at its borders, on the lower helix of the patient’s left ear. No u...

An atypical pigmented lesion of the nose

A 56-year-old Caucasian woman, with skin phototype III, presented with an asymptomatic, slow-growing, gray-black plaque on her nose. The lesion had appeared almost 6 months prior, was 10 × 5 mm in size and presented with a paler, raised and scaly central area (Figure 1). This area could be hardly differentiated from ulceration, however, that was excluded on histology. Dermatoscopy with a non-co...