Macrophotographic correlates of the histology of precursor nevi and SSM in relation to the McGovern model

Haas, N.; Ernst, T.M.

Zeitschrift für Hautkrankheiten 61(21): 1535-1542

1986


ISSN/ISBN: 0301-0481
PMID: 3811453
Document Number: 272725
Structures within pigmented skin tumors, which are beyond the dissolving powers of the eye, may be analysed in vivo by macroscopy using incident lighting. Benign melanocytic nevi have a symmetric and distinct horizontal pattern of pigmentation, whereas in melanoma, intraepidermal tumor growth may show coexistence of net- and/or cluster-like and non-structural forms of pigmentation.

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