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Showing posts with label brown dots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brown dots. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 April 2013

Mole with an eccentric pigmentation



A 40-year-old woman consulted for a mole with an eccentric hyper pigmentation.



Dermoscopy revealed:

  • an atypical reticular network
  • an eccentric dark reticular network
  • irregular brown dots
Lesion was excised and pathology revealed a melanoma in situ.































Saturday, 7 May 2011

Forearm lesion


A 59-year-old woman consulted for this pigmented lesion on her right forearm.


Dermoscopy revealed:
  • irregular pigmentation
  • atypical reticular pattern
  • irregular dots / globules
  • brown dots
  • regressive homogeneous area
in favor of a melanoma.


This lesion was excised and pathology revealed a superficial spreading melanoma with a Breslow index at 0,47mm