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.