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SUBMITTER: Kinsler VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5484991 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kinsler V A VA O'Hare P P Bulstrode N N Calonje J E JE Chong W K WK Hargrave D D Jacques T T Lomas D D Sebire N J NJ Slater O O
The British journal of dermatology 20170404 5
Congenital melanocytic naevi (CMN) are a known risk factor for melanoma, with the greatest risk currently thought to be in childhood. There has been controversy over the years about the incidence of melanoma, and therefore over the clinical management of CMN, due partly to the difficulties of histological diagnosis and partly to publishing bias towards cases of malignancy. Large cohort studies have demonstrated that melanoma risk in childhood is related to the severity of the congenital phenotyp ...[more]