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| Specialty | Oncology, dermatology  |
Lentigo maligna melanoma is a melanoma that has evolved from a lentigo maligna,[1]: 695 as seen as a lentigo maligna with melanoma cells invading below the boundaries of the epidermis.[2] They are usually found on chronically sun damaged skin such as the face and the forearms of the elderly.
Lentigo maligna is the non-invasive skin growth that some pathologists consider to be a melanoma-in-situ.[3] A few pathologists do not consider lentigo maligna to be a melanoma at all, but a precursor to melanomas. Once a lentigo maligna becomes a lentigo maligna melanoma, it is treated as if it were an invasive melanoma.
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