title: [Enlarging pigmented facial lesion].
abstract: A 75-year-old man presented after recurrence of a pigmented macule on his left cheek. Approximately 8 month before a seborrheic keratosis had been diagnosed clinically and treated with cryosurgery and curettage. Dermatoscopy of the recurrent lesion revealed a number of criteria associated with lentigo maligna including asymmetric pigmented follicular openings, streaks, rhomboidal structures, and homogeneous slate-gray areas. Histopathology confirmed a lentigo maligna melanoma with a Breslow tumor thickness of 0.3 mm.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Dermatologie, Venerologie und Allergologie, Georg August Universität Göttingen, Robert Koch Str. 40, 37075 Göttingen. h.haenssle@med.uni-goettingen.de
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Haenssle
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D018327:Hutchinson's Melanotic Freckle / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*