You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing and what you can do to make your experience on this site better.


ABOUT ARCHIVES
Advanced Search

Welcome   | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In


  Vol. 144 No. 4, April 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS
  Archives
  •  Online Features
  Observation
 This Article
 •Full text
 •PDF
 •Send to a friend
 • Save in My Folder
 •Save to citation manager
 •Permissions
 Citing Articles
 •Citing articles on HighWire
 •Citing articles on Web of Science (2)
 •Contact me when this article is cited
 Related Content
 •Similar articles in this journal
 Topic Collections
 •Oncology
 •Skin Cancer
 •Dermatology
 •Dermatologic Disorders
 •Neoplasms
 •Diagnosis
 •Dermatology, Other
 •Humanities
 •History of Medicine
 •Alert me on articles by topic
 Social Bookmarking
  Add to CiteULike Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us Add to Digg Add to Reddit Add to Technorati Add to Twitter What's this?

An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Pigmented Lesion Above Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Left Eyebrow

A. Bernard Ackerman, MD; Steven Lomazow, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2008;144(4):529-532.

Background  Little note was taken when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was alive and since his death of the pigmented lesion above his left eyebrow that fulfilled clinical criteria for melanoma.

Observations  On morphologic grounds alone, it is im possible to exclude the possibility that Roosevelt had a melanoma.

Conclusions  The failure of observers of Roosevelt, especially his physicians, to comment on his riveting facial lesion and to identify it as a probable melanoma speaks volumes about how flawed were clinical criteria for diagnosis of flat and slightly raised lesions of melanoma in the 1930s and 1940s.


Author Affiliations: Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology (Dr Ackerman) and Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Dr Lomazow) New York, New York. Dr Lomazow is also in private practice in Belleville, New Jersey.



Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Roosevelt's Pigmented Lesion: Probably Not a Melanoma
Goldsmith
Arch Dermatol 2009;145:339-339.
FULL TEXT  

Roosevelt's Pigmented Lesion: Probably Not a Melanoma--Reply
Ackerman
Arch Dermatol 2009;145:339-340.
FULL TEXT  





HOME | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | TOPIC COLLECTIONS | CME | SUBMIT | SUBSCRIBE | HELP
CONDITIONS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT US | SITE MAP
 
© 2008 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.