Clinical findings are not helpful in detecting lentigo maligna melanoma in patients with biopsy-proven lentigo maligna.

J ZoutendijkS KoljenovicM WakkeeA L MooyaartT NijstenR R van den Bos

Published in: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV (2022)

8.6% of the biopsy-proven LM were LMM after complete histological examination. In this study, the dermatologist was not able to increase the detection rate of LMM by using clinical and dermoscopic mapping.

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