Minimal deviation melanoma. Borderline and intermediate melanocytic neoplasia.

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In the concept of MDM, the term melanoma has been reserved for lesions showing a vertical growth component. Vertical growth, divorced from any prognostic implications, is simply a morphologic designation. Such a maneuver also serves to validate the category of MDM, although it might then be inappropriate to characterize such lesions as melanoma. From my view, the modifier "minimal deviation" takes the onus of...

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