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Diseases
Acral Lentiginous Malignant Melanoma
acral lentiginous malignant melanoma
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Core Information
- Disease Name
- Acral Lentiginous Malignant Melanoma
- Standard Disease Name
- acral lentiginous malignant melanoma
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- UMLS ID
- C0346037
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Description and Extensions
- Description
- NCI2016_02D:A form of melanoma occurring most often on the plantar, palmar, subungual, and periungual skin. It presents as a pigmented macular lesion with irregular borders. Morphologically, it consists of atypical spindled and dendritic melanocytes. The epidermis is often hyperplastic and there is pagetoid infiltration of the epidermis by anaplastic cells.|HPO2016_07_04:A type of cutaneous melanoma localized to the palm, sole, or beneath the nail (subungual melanoma). Acral lentiginous melanoma starts as a slowly-enlarging flat patch of discoloured skin and usually displays a size above 6 mm and often several centimetres or more in diameter upon diagnosis and variable pigmentation with a mixutre of colors including brown, and blue-grey, black and red. The surface of the lesion is initially smooth but later in the course may become thicker and irregular, and may ulcerate or bleed. [HPO:probinson]