Handheld reflectance confocal microscopy with radial video mosaicing showed utility in mapping lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma. The prospective trial included patients with biopsy-proven ...

Reflectance confocal microscopy was associated with high sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing lentigo maligna, according to published study results in JAMA Dermatology. The researchers aimed to ...

Netherlands data reveal how lentigo maligna is treated in the Netherlands, with notable upstaging and recurrence rates. Read ...

The standard of care set forth by the National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference in 1992 recommended excision with a 0.5 cm margin for in situ melanomas including LM (NIH Consensus Development ...

This patient had lentigo maligna melanoma, a cancerous lesion that most commonly arises as a tan or brown macule on sun-damaged surfaces of the skin. 3 The lesion acquires a darker, asymmetrical ...

A typical image preprocessing workflow. The facial image is corrected for white balance with Python's OpenCV. A square region of interest (ROI) containing the main lesion is cropped. ROIs from five ...

HealthDay News — For patients with lentigo maligna (LM) in-situ melanoma, topical imiquimod has a pathological complete regression (pCR) rate of 37%, according to a study published online October 6 in ...

SKIN cancer rates are on the rise due to an increase in unprotected sun exposure. For one type - lentigo maligna melanoma - freckles on the face could be a sign. Freckles have long been considered a ...

This guidance considers the use of VivaScope 1500 and 3000 imaging systems to help decide whether to biopsy and excise skin lesions, and to map lesion margins in people with skin cancer. The VivaScope ...

In summary, LM management depends on the individual patient and the tumor. Excision by the wide-margin Mohs technique (taking at least the 5 mm recommended margin around the tumor) would be the ...

The woman had solar lentigines, or “liver spots.” These common, benign lesions result from melanocyte hyperproliferation secondary to chronic sun damage. They most frequently arise in older, ...