This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Neoplasms  • Alert me on articles by topic

A Preliminary Report

Kenneth M. Lloyd, MD
Dermatology Service, Forum Health, Youngstown, Ohio

Arch Dermatol. 2006;142:1092.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

The 6 lesions shown developed sequentially over a 3-year period with no precursor lesions on a 62-year-old woman. The order of occurrence was right forearm (Figure 1), right lateral knee (Figure 2), right base of the neck (Figure 3), left posterior calf (Figure 4), dorsum of the right shoulder (Figure 5), and left upper arm (Figure 6). The patient's father had a melanoma on the face. The patient and her mother, sister, and sister's daughter all had a history of breast cancer. Vitiligo was found in her mother and her sister.

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 1.

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 2.

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 3.

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 4.

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 5.

Figure appears in full text version. Figure 6.

Histologically, the lesion in Figure 1 was an amelanotic lentigo maligna melanoma, Breslow level 0.25 mm, and the other 5 lesions were lentigo maligna.

The striking variation of melanoma presentation, particularly . . . [Full Text of this Article]