Color Atlas of Melanocytic Lesions of the Skin

The Morphologic Dimension: The morphologic dimension in the diagnosis of melanocytic skin lesions. Clinical examination including ABCDE. Dermoscopic examination. Dermatopathology.- Future Diagnostic Approaches: Laser scanning in-vivo microscopy. Automatic diagnosis. Multispectral Image Analysis. Teledermatology.- Melanocytic Nevi: The life of moles. Acral nevus. Agminated nevus. Blue nevus. Clark (dysplastic) nevus. Combined nevus. Common nevus. Congenital nevus including its variants (e.g. Nevus spilus). Genital nevus and nevi on other special locations. Halo nevus. Irritated nevus including Meyerson nevus. Melanocytic lesions in people of color. Miescher nevus. Nevi arising in unusual clinical settings. Nevi with particular coloration (black nevus, red nevus, white nevus). Recurrent nevus. Spitz nevus including its variants (e.g. Reed nevus). Syndromes that involve melanocytic lesions. Subungual nevus. Unna nevus.- Melanoma: Epidemiology of melanoma. Acral melanoma. Amelanotic melanoma. Early evolution of melanoma (small diameter melanoma). False negative melanoma. Genital melanoma. Melanoma of the face. Melanoma of the trunk and limbs including superficial and nodular melanoma. Metastatic melanoma. Scalp melanoma. Subungual melanoma.- Other pigmented skin tumors: Basal-cell carcinoma. Dermatofibroma. Lentigines including lentigo simplex, reticulated lentigo and actinic lentigo. Rare pigmented skin neoplasms. Squamous-cell carcinoma including pigmented actinic keratosis. Vascular lesions. Verruca seborrhoica including lichen planus-like keratosis.