Expert: Color IDs Skin Ca Better Than Diameter

Increased emphasis on the criterion of darkness enhances other strategies to diagnose melanomas, he said, including early recognition of asymmetry in melanomas (Arch. Dermatol. 1994;130:1013-7), recognition of change in melanomas (Br. J. Dermatol. 1999;141:783-7), and identifying small “ugly ducklings” that are melanomas (Arch. Dermatol. 1998;134:103-4).

This patient has melanoma in-situ, mixed pattern, with regression.

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