title: [Monitoring a melanocytic tumor. When is excision indicated?].
abstract: Follow-up examination with comparison of dermoscopic images was performed over 24 months on an initially unimpressive, distinctly asymmetrical melanocytic tumor in a 39-year-old woman. She did not follow the recommendation for an excision after 19 months and 5 months later she came back for the next follow-up image. At this stage she was pregnant. The dermoscopic suspicion of a melanoma in-situ was confirmed by histology. This case is instructive in the view of follow-up, self-examination, self- detection of a melanoma, asymmetric changes of melanocytic lesion and evaluation of changes during pregnancy.
authors: a.blum@derma.de
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Blum
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Maltagliati-Holzner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology; D046169:Dermoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*