title: Cases from the aerospace medicine residents' teaching file. Case #45. An aviator with a pigmented skin lesion.
abstract: The initial presentation and diagnosis of an aviator with a pigmented skin lesion. The epidemiology of the skin cancer epidemic, including melanoma is discussed. Prognostic implications of melanoma and the U.S. Air Force experience with melanoma in aircrew are also depicted.
authors.affiliation: 165 TAC Hospital, Savannah, GA.
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Mays
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sardana
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Parmet
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D008889:Military Personnel; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014481:United States