Saturday, March 5, 2011

Clinical and diagnostic features of in situ melanoma and superficial spreading melanoma: a hospital based study

Abstract

Background  Despite the incidence of in situ melanoma is continuously rising; few studies have investigated its clinical and diagnostic features.


Objective  To investigate clinical and diagnostic features of in situ melanoma compared to superficial spreading melanoma (SSM).


Methods  This is a hospital based, case-control study. Ninety consecutive patients with an in situ melanoma and 90 age and gender matched patients with SSM were enrolled. Main outcome measures were differences in clinical signs that aroused suspicion of in situ melanoma, detection modalities (self-detection vs. incidental detection by a physician), factors conditioning time between ...

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