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New pathomorphological classification of melanomas
Affiliations- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostics, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Warsaw, Poland
- Department of Pathomorphology, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration in Warsaw, Poland
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Abstract
Melanoma is a neoplasm whose biology we are getting to know better and better. The consequence of this is the latest edition of “WHO Classification of Skin Tumours 4th edition, 2018”. The division presented in this paper takes into account the character of growth and location of melanoma, but also results from the analysis of the most frequent mutations occurring in this neoplasm. The assessment of the stage of melanoma progression, based on two most important prognostic microscopic features, i.e. the depth of infiltration and the presence or absence of ulceration, remains valid.
Abstract
Melanoma is a neoplasm whose biology we are getting to know better and better. The consequence of this is the latest edition of “WHO Classification of Skin Tumours 4th edition, 2018”. The division presented in this paper takes into account the character of growth and location of melanoma, but also results from the analysis of the most frequent mutations occurring in this neoplasm. The assessment of the stage of melanoma progression, based on two most important prognostic microscopic features, i.e. the depth of infiltration and the presence or absence of ulceration, remains valid.
Keywords
melanoma; TNM classification; mutations
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New pathomorphological classification of melanomas
Journal
Nowotwory. Journal of Oncology
Issue
Article type
Review paper
Pages
103-107
Published online
2019-10-31
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Bibliographic record
Nowotwory. Journal of Oncology 2019;69(3-4):103-107.
Keywords
melanoma
TNM classification
mutations
Authors
Piotr Wiśniewski
Anna Szumera-Ciećkiewicz
Anna Nasierowska-Guttmejer