Lentigo maligna

Superficial Spreading Nodular Lentigo Maligna Melanoma Acral Lentiginous Basal Cell Carcinoma Squamous Cell Carcinoma... 

Clinical Long horizontal Very aggressive Lentigo maligna— 50% of all Four subtypes Usually presents as a... 

Before any treatment, a differential diagnosis should be made between SLs and freckles, certain types of flat seborrheic keratoses, early pigmented AKs, lentigo maligna, junctional nevus and some acanthomas. There are different ways to treat solar lentigines on the face, hands, neck and decolletage, from laser to pulsed light, cryotherapy, dermabrasion and peels. 

Lentigo maligna combined with severe photoaging (a) before and (b) after a full-face phenol peel. 

Lentigo maligna is also known as DubreuUh s melanosis and Hutchinson s freckle. Different authors consider it either as a malignant melanoma in situ or as a premalignant melanocytic dysplasia. 

Surgical management of lentigo maligna melanoma is problematic, as subclinical extension of atypical junctional melanocytic hyperplasia may extend beyond the visible margins it is important to completely excise these lesions. 

Verruca seborrhoica Verruca vulgaris Lentigo maligna melanoma Malignant melanoma... 

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