Payette Michael J, Katz Marilyn, Grant-Kels Jane M
Department of Dermatology, MC-6230, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030, USA.
Clin Dermatol. 2009 Jan-Feb;27(1):53-74. doi: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2008.09.006.
Significant prognostic information is available in a routine melanoma dermatopathology report. Features that are enumerated in the pathology report and that portend a potentially poorer prognosis are older age, site (acral, head, neck), male sex, increasing Breslow tumor thickness, increasing Clark's level, ulceration, increasing number of mitoses, vertical growth phase, regression, absence of a host inflammatory response, increased tumor vascularity, angiotropism, vascular invasion, neurotropism, marked atypia, and satellite metastasis.
