Discover a study showing how AI outperforms dermatologists in diagnosing facial pigmented lesions, supporting safer treatment decisions.

ELISA Beth Magagna was given just months to live after her back pain turned out to be cancer eating into her bones. “It’s like being tied to the train tracks,” the now 42-year-old from Idaho, US, ...

A research team has developed a diagnostic system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately identify the type of facial pigmented lesions and support laser treatment decisions. A paper on ...

A research team led by Haruyo Yamamoto, Chisa Nakashima, and Atsushi Otsuka from Department of Dermatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering at ...

Like superficial spreading melanoma, lentigo maligna grows more slowly across the top layer of skin, looking like a flat or slightly raised tan, brown, or dark-brown patch.

Lentigo maligna melanoma is a melanoma in situ on sun-damaged skin. It is a variably brown-pigmented flat patch on the head or neck of elderly patients. Its growth is generally slow, but it can ...

A 72-year-old woman presented with a slightly erythematous macular lesion measuring 333 cm, with undefined borders, on the left temporal area of the face.

WEDNESDAY, March 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Handheld reflectance confocal microscopy (HH-RCM) is promising for detecting subclinical lentigo maligna (melanoma; LM/LMM), according to a study published ...

Background/aims There is a paucity in the literature on the presentation, management and outcomes of cases where primary acquired melanosis (PAM) is associated with spill over/contiguous periocular ...

Patients with lentigo maligna who are treated with Mohs micrographic surgery vs wide local excision have increased disease-specific survival.

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with lentigo maligna treated by staged excision, 89.2 percent had clear margins after initial excision with 5-mm margins, according to a study ...