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The Emperor's New Clothes: A Critique of the Current WHO Classification of Malignant Melanoma.

The American Journal of dermatopathology - 1 Dec 2020

Weyers Wolfgang

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The World Health Organization's classification of skin tumors of 2018 presents melanoma as a loose assembly of independent biologic entities, each of which is characterized by a distinctive constellation of clinical, histopathologic, and molecular findings that evolve through different pathways of lesional progression from a benign to an intermediate and, ultimately, malignant tumor. The alleged pathways,...

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PMID: 32852290
DOI: 10.1097/DAD.0000000000001777

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