title: Differentiation between malignant melanoma and Spitz tumour has improved over the past decade due to modern pathological techniques.
abstract: A 10-year-old boy was diagnosed with a thick neurotropic melanoma of the lip in 2002. He is alive and well without evidence of disease recurrence 10 years later. We applied modern pathologic techniques to this lesion to highlight recent advances in melanoma diagnostics.
authors.affiliation: Diagnostic Medlab, 10 Harrison Road, Ellerslie, Auckland 1060, New Zealand. paddyemanuel@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: McKerrow
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Oei
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tallon
authors.forename: Patrick O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Emanuel
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*; D018332:Nevus, Epithelioid and Spindle Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*