One of the largest studies of outcomes of treatments for LM reviewed 13,051 cases of melanoma in situ (Zalaudek et al., 2003), of which 95.9% were treated with excision and the remainder were ...

Women were a younger mean age at melanoma diagnosis when compared with men across all anatomic sites and most Breslow thickness categories.

It might slowly get bigger over several years and might change shape or colour. If it becomes a lentigo maligna melanoma, it starts to grow down into the deeper layers of the skin. It may also form ...

nodular melanoma typically is characterized by "a raised skin bump that appears to be uniform in color." Lentigo maligna melanoma: A slow-growing melanoma that often appears in older individuals ...

Lentigo maligna melanoma is a melanoma in situ on sun-damaged skin. It is a variably brown-pigmented flat patch on the head or neck of elderly patients. Its growth is generally slow, but it can ...