Melanoma
From dermoscopedia
Author(s): Ashfaq A. Marghoob
This chapter covers dermoscopy of superficial spreading melanoma, nodular melanoma, lentigo maligna, etc.
It has the following subchapters:
- Superficial Spreading Melanoma
- Acrolentiginous Melanoma
- Nodular Melanoma
- Lentigo Maligna
- Amelanotic / hypomelanotic melanoma
- Melanoma on sun damaged skin
- Desmoplastic melanoma
- Equivocal lesions
- False positive diagnosis
- False Negative Diagnosis
- Melanoma AJCC Classification
- Epidemiology of melanoma
- Genetics of melanoma
Malignant melanoma has many faces and dependiung on the type of melanoma different dermoscopy criteria can be seen. For this reason we describe the specific criteria in the subchapters (see above).