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Melanoma In Situ

Wood’s Lamp Lower Eyelid Melanoma in situ

HISTORY A 57-year-old woman presents with two year hisory of right under-eye pigmentation. Shave biopsy by an outside office diagnosed MMIS, lentigo maligna type. Evaluated under Wood’s Lamp. Patient will be getting treatment at an outside office. DISCUSSION Evaluation of pigmented lesions with blue light There are multiple aspects to evaluating pigmented lesions, the most…

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Treatment Considerations for Melanoma In-Situ

HISTORY A 22-year-old woman presented with left upper lip lesion. Tape testing showed positive for LINC00518 and PRAME. Excisional biopsy was performed showing atypia on the preliminary results. DISCUSSION Management of melanoma in-situ can be especially challenging in cosmetically sensitive areas such as the lip. Traditional management options for melanoma in-situ include surgical excision, topical…

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Managing Lentigo Maligna Melanoma

HISTORY A 56-year-old man presented with complaint of lifelong history of darkening, growing left lesion of the left cheek. Biopsy on 09/24/21 showed melanoma in-situ. Excision with 5-6mm margins and closure of left cheek melanoma performed on 12/2/21 showed positive margins at 3-4 o’clock margins. Woods lamp evaluation and re-excision performed on 1/7/22. DISCUSSION Lentigo…

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Management of Recurrent Large Melanoma In Situ

HISTORY 78-year-old man presents with a recurrent melanoma in situ of left cheek in April 2018. Previously, the melanoma in situ was excised in 2001. Patient’s dermatologists performed excision in three stages over a period of 3 weeks to achieve clear margins.  Reconstruction of left cheek was performed with a cheek and neck platysma myocutaneous…

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Chin Reconstruction 3

Patient diagnosed with Melanom-In-Situ of left chin. Mohs excision performed at primary dermatologist’s office. Chin reconstruction performed by Dr. Simon Madorsky at SCARS Center. 

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Melanoma In Situ of Leg – Mapping Excision Margins

The vexing problem of positive margins after excision of melanoma in situ has many solutions. In this article, we summarize them and rank them in the order of efficacy.   Melanoma in situ excision margin guidelines range from the older 5 mm margin to the aggressive 10 mm margin of resection. 7 mm seems to…

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Mapping of Recurrent Melanoma In Situ of Leg

HISTORY   50-year-old woman presents with recurrent melanoma in situ of left leg. First biopsied on 9-2-16, the lesion was excised on 10-14-16 and showed extensive residual melanoma in-situ with radial margins involved from 12- 3 o’clock.  The defect was reconstructed at the time with a full thickness skin graft. Second excision cleared the involved…

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MULTIPLE ATYPICAL NEVI WITH STRONG FAMILY HISTORY OF CANCER

HISTORY 24-year-old woman presents with multiple atypical nevi.  Almost all lesions had mild atypia, few had focally moderate atypia, and one on her right posterior shoulder had severe atypia and was excised with 5mm margins elsewhere. Family history is significant for melanoma in grandmother and pancreatic cancer in her father. Physical exam showed multiple 2-4…

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MELANOMA IN SITU OF BACK

  HISTORY 69-year-old man presents with melanoma in situ of the upper back. A biopsy on 6/15/2017 showed malignant melanoma at least in-situ and at least Clark’s level I with margins involved. Excision and skin graft closure performed on 8/9/2017. Pathology showed residual malignant melanoma in situ with involved margin at 2-4 o’clock. DISCUSSION Management…

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