Cancers (Aug 2010)

Dermoscopy of Scalp Melanoma: Report of Three Cases

  • Antonella Tosti,
  • Maria Carmela Annunziata,
  • Sergio Henrique Hirata,
  • Valerio De Vita,
  • Sergio Yamada,
  • Gabriella Fabbrocini,
  • Fernanda Torres

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers2031597
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 1597 – 1601

Abstract

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Scalp melanoma is rare and often late-discovered because of its unusual position. As a consequence, its prognosis is poorer than melanoma on other body sites and only few clinical reports about its dermoscopic pattern have been published. In this paper, we report three clinical cases of scalp melanoma with photographic documentation and dermoscopic images, in order to improve the early detection of scalp melanoma.

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