Melanoma (cutaneous)

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Melanoma

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

NEWS:

Margin of 1 cm Increases Risk of Local Melanoma Recurrence

ARTICLES:

Skin Photographs May Help Patients Detect New Or Changed Moles

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Acceptability and feasibility of a community-based screening programme for melanoma in Australia. (Health Promot Int)

Addition of dermoscopy to conventional naked-eye examination in melanoma screening: a randomized study. (J Am Acad Dermatol)

"Atypical" blue nevus, "malignant" blue nevus, and "metastasizing" blue nevus: a critique in historical perspective of three concepts flawed fatally. (Am J Dermatopathol.)

Baseline staging in cutaneous malignant melanoma. (Br J Dermatol)

Clinical use of positron emission tomography in the management of cutaneous melanoma. (Semin Nucl Med)

Combined naevus: a benign lesion frequently misdiagnosed both clinically and pathologically as melanoma. (Pathology)

Common and uncommon variants of melanocytic naevi. (Pathology.)

Correlation between preoperative lymphoscintigraphy and metastatic nodal disease sites in 362 patients with cutaneous melanomas of the head and neck. (Ann Surg)

Cutaneous melanoma in a multiethnic population: is this a different disease? (Arch Surg)

Dermoscopic patterns of cutaneous melanoma metastases. (Melanoma Res)

Detection of melanomas in patients followed up with total cutaneous examinations, total cutaneous photography, and dermoscopy. (J Am Acad Dermatol)

Diagnosing melanoma patients entering American Joint Committee on Cancer stage IV, C-reactive protein in serum is superior to lactate dehydrogenase. (Br J Cancer)

Diagnostic accuracy of patients in performing skin self-examination and the impact of photography. (Arch Dermatol)

Early Diagnosis of Cutaneous Melanoma (JAMA)

Features of sentinel lymph nodes for melanoma may lead to re-diagnosis of the cutaneous primary: an unusual case and review of literature. (Virchows Arch)

Five years of sentinel node biopsy for melanoma: the St George's Melanoma Unit experience. (Br J Plast Surg)

Frequency and characteristics of melanomas missed at a pigmented lesion clinic: a registry-based study. (Melanoma Res)

Histopathological patterns of melanoma metastases in sentinel lymph nodes. (J Clin Pathol)

Impact of ulceration in stages I to III cutaneous melanoma as staged by the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System: an analysis of the German Central Malignant Melanoma Registry (J Clin Oncol)

Improvement of Malignant/Benign Ratio in Excised Melanocytic Lesions in the 'Dermoscopy Era': A Retrospective Study 1997-2001 (Br J Dermatol)

Melanoma detection in British Columbia, Canada. (J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005)

Melanomas detected with the aid of total cutaneous photography. (Br J Dermatol)

Micrometastasis of a sentinel lymph node in cutaneous melanoma is a significant prognostic factor for disease-free survival, distant-metastasis-free survival, and overall survival. (Dermatol Surg)

Micro-melanoma detection. A clinical study on 22 cases of melanoma with a diameter equal to or less than 3 mm. (Tumori)

Molecular genetics of melanocytic neoplasia: practical applications for diagnosis. (Pathology)

Monitoring of nevus density in children as a method to detect shifts in melanoma risk in the population. (Prev Med)

My approach to atypical melanocytic lesions. (J Clin Pathol)

Optimized assessment of sentinel lymph nodes for metastatic melanoma: implications for regional surgery and overall treatment planning. (Ann Surg Oncol)

Pathologic analysis of sentinel lymph nodes in melanoma patients: current and future trends. (J Surg Oncol)

Persistent blue nevus simulating melanoma. (J Am Acad Dermatol)

Positron emission tomography is not useful in detecting metastasis in the sentinel lymph node in patients with primary malignant melanoma stage I and II. (Melanoma Res)

Prediction of metastatic melanoma in nonsentinel nodes and clinical outcome based on the primary melanoma and the sentinel node. (Mod Pathol)

Presentation, histopathologic findings, and clinical outcomes in 7 cases of melanoma in situ of the nail unit. (Arch Dermatol)

Prognostic Factors of Thin Cutaneous Melanoma: An Analysis of the Central Malignant Melanoma Registry of the German Dermatological Society. (J Clin Oncol)

Radioguided sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with malignant cutaneous melanoma: the nuclear medicine contribution. (J Surg Oncol)

Results of a surveillance programme for patients at high risk of malignant melanoma using digital and conventional dermoscopy. (Eur J Cancer Prev)

Role of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with thick (>4 mm) primary melanoma. (Am Surg)

Seasonal variations in the diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma. (J Am Acad Dermatol)

Sentinel lymph node biopsy does not change melanoma-specific survival among patients with Breslow thickness greater than four millimeters. (Ann Surg Oncol)

Sentinel lymph node biopsy in melanoma patients: the medical oncologist's perspective. (J Surg Oncol)

Sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with cutaneous melanoma: outcome after 3-year follow-up. (Eur J Surg Oncol)

Sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with Stage I/II melanoma: Clinical experience and literature review. (J Surg Oncol)

Sentinel lymph nodes in malignant melanoma: extended histopathologic evaluation improves diagnostic precision. (Cancer)

Sentinel node biopsy for melanoma: Where have we been and where are we going? (Ann Surg Oncol)

Small diameter melanoma: a follow-up of the Norwegian Melanoma Project. (Br J Dermatol)

Spitz naevus: diagnostic problems and their management implications. (Pathology)

Staging workup, sentinel node biopsy, and follow-up tests for melanoma: update of current concepts. (Arch Dermatol)

The approach to the patient with a difficult melanocytic lesion. (Pathology)

The diameter of melanomas. (Dermatol Surg)

The staging of malignant melanoma and the Florida melanoma trial. (Ann Surg Oncol)

Thin primary cutaneous malignant melanoma: a prognostic tree for 10-year metastasis is more accurate than American Joint Committee on Cancer staging. (J Clin Oncol)

Ultrasonography or palpation for detection of melanoma nodal invasion: a meta-analysis. (Lancet Oncol)

Update on lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy in the management of patients with melanocytic tumours. (Pathology)

Use of in vivo confocal microscopy in malignant melanoma: an aid in diagnosis and assessment of surgical and nonsurgical therapeutic approaches. (Arch Dermatol)

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