An irregularly marginated variably pigmented changing melanocytic lesion - it was a 0.5mm Breslow thickness melanoma
(SSM-patient10)
Keywords: 22 years, Breslow depth 0.6 mm, Chin, European ethnicity, Female, Genodermatosis, Histopathology-confirmed, Lesion (cancerous), Melanoma, Pigmented macule, Skin cancer, Skin type 2, Superficial spreading melanoma type, White skin
Superficial spreading melanoma is the most common type of melanoma, a potentially serious skin cancer that arises from melanocytes (pigment cells) along the basal layer of the epidermis.
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