lentigo maligna
Histologic Features
- A broad, asymmetrical and poorly circumscribed lesion with
- A proliferation of atypical melanocytes, as solitary units and nests throughout the entire thickness of the epidermis
- Single melanocytes predominating at some foci
- Pagetoid spread of atypical melanocytes to the upper epidermis
- Prominent solar elastosis of the dermis
- Melanophages within the papillary dermis
- Involvement of the follicular epithelium
- Marked solar elastoisis of the dermis
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