An asymmetric melanocytic lesion showing some inferior regression - a malignant melanoma (SSM-patient11)
Keywords: 20 year-old, Asymmetry of colour and structure, Background pinkness, Blue-grey structure, Chaos, Dermoscopy, Dermoscopy image, Eccentric structureless area, European ethnicity, Female, Genodermatosis, Histopathology-confirmed, Left chest, Lesion (cancerous), Melanoma in situ, Multiple colours, Peripheral black dots, Skin cancer, Skin type 2, Thick lines reticular
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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