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Evolving concepts in melanoma classification and their relevance to multidisciplinary melanoma patient care.
Molecular oncology - 1 Apr 2011
Scolyer Richard A, Long Georgina V, Thompson John F
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In the initial period after melanoma was recognised as a disease entity in the early 1800's, it was subclassified on the basis of its presumed origin (from a precursor naevus, from a melanocytic precursor lesion acquired during adult life or in previously blemish-fee skin). In 1967 the eminent American pathologist, Dr Wallace Clark, proposed a histogenetic classification for melanoma in which the disease was...
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