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A changing irregularly pigmented lesion with a new nodule at the inferior pole - a malignant melanoma (SSM-patient11)
Keywords: 20 year-old, Asymmetry of colour, Background macule, Chaos, Dermoscopy image, European ethnicity, Female, Genodermatosis, Histopathology-confirmed, Left chest, Lesion (cancerous), Macro image, Melanoma in situ, Papular components, Skin cancer, Skin type 2
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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