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Skin-Melanocytic tumors
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Primary references, dermoscopy
Nevi: general, specific sites, active, balloon cell, Becker’s, blue, blue nevus variants, cockarde, combined, compound, congenital, connective tissue, deep penetrating, dermal, divided/kissing, dysplastic, epidermolysis bullosa, hair follicle, halo, Ito’s, junctional, lentiginous, Meyerson’s, Mongolian spot, naevus sebaceous, Ota’s, Phacomatosis pigmentokeratotica, Phacomatosis pigmentovascularis, pigmented spindle cell, speckled lentiginous, Spitz:classic, Spitz:atypical, Spitz:desmoplastic, white sponge
Other melanocytic lesions: general, atypical melanocytic hyperplasia, café-au-lait spot, ephelis, hyperpigmentation, linear and whorled nevoid hypermelanosis, melasma, paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor, solar lentigo, vitiligo
Melanoma: in situ, invasive-general, acral lentiginous, desmoplastic, follicular, lentigo maligna, lentiginous, minimal deviation, nevoid, nodular, pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma, primary dermal, subungual, superficial spreading
Miscellaneous: sentinel node biopsy, Breslow, Clark’s levels, features to report, staging
Index (table of contents in alphabetical order)
A-E: acral lentiginous melanoma, active nevus, atypical melanocytic hyperplasia, balloon cell nevus, Becker’s nevus, blue nevus, blue nevus variants, Breslow, café-au-lait spot, Clark’s levels, cockarde nevus, combined nevus, compound nevus, congenital nevus, connective tissue nevus, deep penetrating nevus, dermal nevus, dermoscopy, desmoplastic melanoma, divided/kissing nevus, dysplastic nevus, ephelis, epidermolysis bullosa nevus
F-M: features to report, follicular melanoma, hair follicle nevus, halo nevus, hyperpigmentation, Ito’s nevus, junctional nevus, lentigo maligna, lentiginous melanoma, lentiginous nevus, linear and whorled nevoid hypermelanosis, melanoma in situ, melanoma, invasive-general, melasma, Meyerson’s nevus, minimal deviation melanoma, Mongolian spot nevus
N-Z: naevus sebaceous, nevoid melanoma, nevus-general, nevus-specific sites, nodular melanoma, other melanocytic lesions-general, Ota’s nevus, paraganglioma-like dermal melanocytic tumor, Phacomatosis pigmentokeratotica, Phacomatosis pigmentovascularis, pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma, pigmented spindle cell nevus, primary dermal melanoma, sentinel node biopsy, solar lentigo, speckled lentiginous nevus, Spitz:classic, Spitz:atypical, Spitz:desmoplastic, staging, subungual melanoma, superficial spreading melanoma, vitiligo, white sponge nevus
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Primary references - Skin-Melanocytic tumors chapter
AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (6th Ed)
American Journal of Dermatopathology, January 2000 to October 2008
American Journal of Surgical Pathology (AJSP), January 2000 to November 2008
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Archives) [free full text, no registration always], January 1999 to November 2008
BMC Dermatology [free full text & no registration always] March 1988 to 24 October 2008
Dermatology Online Journal [free full text & no registration always] March 1997 to October 2008
Human Pathology (Hum Path), January 2000 to November 2008
Modern Pathology (Mod Path) [free full text & no registration after 1 year], January 2000 to November 2008
Rosai, J: Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology (9th Ed), Mosby, 2004
Sternberg, S: Diagnostic Surgical Pathology (4th Ed); Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004
Websites: PathoPic
Journal search terms: each disease entity listed as of November 2008
Please refer to these primary references for more detailed discussions and photographs
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