These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Dysplastic nevus in histologic contiguity with acquired nonfamilial melanoma. Clinicopathologic experience in a 100-bed hospital.
    Author: Duray PH, Ernstoff MS.
    Journal: Arch Dermatol; 1987 Jan; 123(1):80-4. PubMed ID: 3800426.
    Abstract:
    In the face of alarming rates of increase in melanoma worldwide, dysplastic nevi, especially any that are clinically changing in size, color, or borders, may be regarded as playing a potential role in the progression to a tumor stage. Dysplastic nevi are known to occur in multiples in family members of heritable malignant melanoma. Intraepidermal atypical melanocytes fulfilling the criteria of the dysplastic nevus were seen in histologic contiguity with superficial malignant nonfamilial melanomas in six of 13 patients. With one exception, all melanomas in this study that were associated with histologically contiguous dysplastic nevi were relatively thin, allowing identification of the melanoma at a potentially curable stage.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]