Four Cases of Dysplastic Nevus Syndrome
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Vol. 26 No. 4, 2014 547 Received June 4, 2013, Revised September 9, 2013, Accepted for publication September 13, 2013 Corresponding author: Seok-Jong Lee, Department of Dermatology, Kyungpook National University Hospital, 130 Dongdeok-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 700-721, Korea. Tel: 82-53-420-5838, Fax: 82-53-426-0770, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fig. 1. (A) Patient 1: multiple clinical dysplastic nevi (DN) on the back. (B) Patient 2: several clinical DN on the left arm. (C) Patient 3: clinical DN on the scalp; (D) a solitary enlarging black plaque on the right leg that was particularly diagnosed as a nodular melanoma; (E) magnifying view of the melanoma in the same patient. (F) Patient 4: 2 clinical DN on the back. Red arrows represent each of clinical DN. http://dx.doi.org/10.5021/ad.2014.26.4.547
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