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Melanocytic Tumours

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In the First Edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) Histological Typing of Skin Tumours (1974), malignant melanoma was classified into four categories:

  1. 1.

    Malignant melanoma

  2. 2.

    Malignant melanoma arising in precancerous melanosis, including Hutchinson’s melanotic freckle

  3. 3.

    Malignant melanoma arising in a blue naevus

  4. 4.

    Malignant melanoma arising in giant pigmented naevus

Most melanomas, according to this classification, would belong to categories 1 and 2, the essential histological difference between the two types being the presence of “precancerous melanosis including Hutchinson’s melanotic freckle” in the epidermis adjacent to the invasive neoplasm in category 2, whereas in category 1 there was no such adjacent component.

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  1. Department of Pathology, University of Western Australia Queen Elizabeth II Medical Center, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia

    Dr. Peter J. Heenan (Associate Professor)

  2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4283, USA

    Dr. David E. Elder (Professor)

  3. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, 20306-6000, USA

    Dr. L. H. Sobin (Head, WHO Collaborating Center for the International Histological Classification of Tumours)

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Heenan, P.J., Elder, D.E., Sobin, L.H. (1996). Melanocytic Tumours. In: Histological Typing of Skin Tumours. World Health Organization International Histological Classification of Tumours. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80126-6_3

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