Mobile devices equipped with cameras can effectively enable patients to monitor atypical nevi and send images to their healthcare providers, according to an article published online January 28 in JAMA ...

Patients undergoing melanoma screening and surveillance should also undergo a screening of the perianal area for melanocytic nevi, which were associated with atypical nevi on other areas of the body, ...

Dysplastic nevi are benign melanocytic tumors containing clonal populations of hyperproliferative melanocytes. Strictly speaking, dysplastic nevus is a histologic diagnosis, characterized by ...

Most patients with melanoma commonly had few nevi and no atypical nevi, according to recent study results. “Several novel public health messages emerge from our study, including that melanomas are ...

A representative tissue block was selected from each case for genomic copy number analysis. Ten-micron sections were cut, and the lesional tissue was either macro- or microdissected from the normal ...

The retrospective analysis done by Dr. Susan Swetter’s group looked at the important question of what is the risk of developing melanoma in patients who underwent excisional biopsy with positive ...

Melanocytes describe a specialized type of cell that generates a substance called melanin, a pigment responsible for skin and eye color. When several melanocytes cluster together, they form a benign, ...

Atypical moles, otherwise known as dysplastic nevi, are known to increase the risk of certain types of skin cancer, namely, melanomas. These cancers are becoming more common all over the world, and ...

A randomized phase II study of sunitinib versus dacarbazine in the treatment of patients with metastatic uveal melanoma. BREAK-MB: A phase II study assessing overall intracranial response rate (OIRR) ...

U.S. pediatric melanoma rates on the rise What are the standard follow-up recommendations for different levels of dysplasias? Different dermatopathologists report dysplastic nevi with different ...

Melanocytic nevi are a category of benign melanocytic proliferations with a number of subtypes. These include congenital melanocytic nevi, blue nevi, acquired melanocytic nevi, and Spitz nevi. Many of ...