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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

lentigo maligna

Body Site

foot sole

Age

70 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

Color

brown black

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

Comments

A 70 year old man with a 30 year history of a dark spot on the bottom of the left foot noted a doubling in size of the spot over the preceding year. Multiple biopsies showed lentigo maligna without evidence of invasion of malignant cells.

Description

asymmetric, irregularly shaped, variably brown to black patch

Categories

hyperpigmentation lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) neoplasm, malignant

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6/3/2001 12:41:31

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