A changing melanocytic lesion - linear vessels are seen centrally (SSM-patient13)
Keywords: Aged 25 years, Asymmetry of colour and structure, Back, Brown clods, Brown colour, Eccentric structureless area, Female, Genodermatosis, Histopathology-confirmed, In compound naevus, Irregular linear vessels, Lesion (cancerous), Melanoma in situ, Negative network, Peripheral dots, Right posterior shoulder, Skin cancer, Skin type 1, Superficial spreading type, White structures
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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