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What is the clinical staging of malignant melanoma based on?
Malignant melanoma is locally staged based on the depth of penetration through the skin and its appendages.
What reading material is available on the diagnosis and prognosis of malignant melanoma?
Carlson, J. A., A. Slominski, G. P. Linette, et al. "Malignant Melanoma 2003: Predisposition, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Staging." American Journal of Clinical Pathology 120 , Supplement (December 2003): S101-S127.
Where does malignant melanoma develop?
Malignant melanoma may develop anywhere on the body.
What factors create a predisposition to malignant melanoma?
The predisposing causes to the development of malignant melanoma are environmental and genetic.
Is melanoma dominant or recessive?
is malignant melanoma dominant or recessive
What epidermal layer does malignant melanoma arise?
Malignant melanoma arises in the Stratum basale layer of the epidermal layer.
How many forms of malignant melanoma exist?
Malignant degeneration of the melanocyte gives rise to the tumor known as melanoma, which has four subtypes.
What health organizations provide guidelines for the width of the incision to remove malignant melanoma?
Studies from the World Health Organization Melanoma Group and by the Melanoma Intergroup Committee in the United States have provided general guidelines based on the depth of penetration of the melanoma.
Which among them has the poorest prognosis freckles vitiligo melanoma albinism?
Melanoma
What is a malignant melanoma?
skin tumour/cancer
What kind of metastasis can occur regionally in malignant melanoma?
There is also a special type of metastasis that can occur regionally with malignant melanoma; it is known as an in-transit metastasis.
What is the medical term meaning cancerous tumor composed of melanocytes?
malignant melanoma
