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Acral melanoma: correlating the clinical presentation to the mutational status.
Giornale italiano di dermatologia e venereologia : organo ufficiale, Societa italiana di dermatologia e sifilografia - 1 Oct 2019
Ravaioli Giulia M, Dika Emi, Lambertini Martina, Chessa Marco A, Fanti Pier Alessandro, Patrizi Annalisa
Abstract excerpt
Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is the most common type of malignant melanoma (MM) in Asians, Afro-Americans and Middle-Easterners. It represents 1.5-10% of all MM cases, being the most common histological type of MM arising on palms, soles and nail apparatus, which is more generically defined as acral MM. To date no risk factors have been officially established, however a history of trauma may be involved in...
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