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Dermatopathology: Practical & Conceptual July - September 2008
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10. New Heights: “Animal-type” melanoma and entities related to it. Part II: Devolution of the concept: animal-type melanoma, epithelioid blue nevus, pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma?
François Milette, M.D.
A. Bernard Ackerman, M.D.
Authors’ note
Introductory quotations
Contents of Part II
I. Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma, animal-type melanoma, and epithelioid blue nevus (Zembowicz, Carney, and Mihm, 2004)
a. Epithelioid blue nevus in perspective historical
b. Epithelioid blue nevus (Carney and Ferreiro, 1996)
c. Presentation clinical of
pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma
d. Presentation histopathologic of
pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma
e. Concepts of
animal-type melanoma
and
epithelioid blue nevus in relation to pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma
f. Definition of terms ambiguous
g. Lack of legitimacy of any of the concepts set forth by Zembowicz, Carney, and Mihm
II. Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma (Howard et al. 2005)
III. Equine/animal-type melanoma in humans: malignant melanoma with prominent pigment synthesis (Magro, Crowson, Mihm, 2006)
Afterword
Summary
References
SEE ALSO
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animal-type melanoma
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Summary
After having criticized exhaustively the literature concerning
"animal-type melanoma"
in Part One [
1
] of this monograph, the concept, still worse, of
"pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma,"
an "entity" purportedly including both benign AND malignant melanocytic lesions, is dismantled in the present Part Two, using the same "exegetic" approach. The grave consequences of concepts poorly defined on the legitimacy of dermatopathology itself are commented on.
François Milette, M.D., is a pathologist at Centre Hospitalier Pierre-Boucher in Longueuil, Canada, A. Bernard Ackerman is Director Emeritus of the Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology in New York City, United States. This article is part of a solicited contribution and was reviewed by the editor-in-chief. Contact author via e-mail:
francois.milette@rrsss16.gouv.qc.ca
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