Il moderno approccio polispecialistico come risposta alle esigenze diagnostiche, terapeutiche e di ricerca riguardo tale neoplasia cutanea...
Leggi tuttoWe investigated the frequency of melanoma self-detection in a Mediterranean population at intermediate melanoma risk. A multicentric survey identified 816 consecutive cases of cutaneous melanoma in the period January to December 2001 i...
Leggi tuttoThe ABCD criteria for the gross inspection of pigmented skin lesions and early diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma should be expanded to ABCDE (to include evolving). No change to the existing diameter criterion is required at this time...
Leggi tuttoAmelanotic malignant melanoma is a subtype of cutaneous melanoma with little or no pigment on visual inspection. It may mimic benign and malignant variants of both melanocytic and nonmelanocytic lesions. The study aims to evaluate whet...
Leggi tuttoThe aim was to analyse the parameters associated with a higher risk of occult nodal metastases, to evaluate the clinical outcome of melanoma patients who underwent SLN procedure, and to identify by means of multivariate analysis the pr...
Leggi tuttoThe addition of dermoscopy to conventional naked-eye examination is associated with a significant reduction of number of pigmented skin lesions excised for diagnostic verification. The possibility of digital follow-up of equivocal lesi...
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