immunotherapy
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Definition & clinical features •A melanoma which you diagnosed as nevus and wish that you hadn’t!; a melanoma that closely mimics especially on scanning magnification •The correct diagnosis often comes to light when it recurs or metastasizes •Results from insufficient time being spend on a nevoid lesion •Behaves no differently than any other melanoma •Everyone…
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Clinical features •Should be distinguished from trichoepithelioma since the latter may be multiple and associated with Brooke-Spiegler syndrome & multiple familial trichoepitheliomas •Exceptional association with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome •M=F •5th-7th decades •Presents as a solitary, slowly growing nodule particularly affecting the scalp, head & neck, trunk, extremities & genitalia in decreasing order of frequency Plaque-like variant (F>>M) Histological…