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Dermatologist Lindsey Zubritsky is "begging" her 1.4 million TikTok followers to check their nails for a vertical line, which could indicate a subungual melanoma, a rare, but serious skin cancer.
Melanoma is a group of serious skin cancers that arise from pigment cells (melanocytes); acral lentiginous melanoma is a kind of lentiginous [8] skin melanoma. [6] ALM makes up less than 5% of all melanomas, but is considered the most common subtype in people with darker skin and is rare in people with lighter skin types. [9]
Lentigo maligna is a histopathological variant of melanoma in situ. [6] Lentigo maligna is sometimes classified as a very early melanoma, [7] and sometimes as a precursor to melanoma. [8] When malignant melanocytes from a lentigo maligna have invaded below the epidermis, the condition is termed lentigo maligna melanoma. [2]
Melanonychia is a black or brown pigmentation of a nail, and may be present as a normal finding on many digits in Afro-Caribbeans, as a result of trauma, systemic disease, or medications, or as a postinflammatory event from such localized events as lichen planus or fixed drug eruption. [1]: 790 [2]: 665
Kelly Heather, 38, ended up needing brain surgery for a tumor — and it started as a discolored line on her fingernail Mom's Stage 4 Melanoma Spread from Fingernail to Brain, Says She 'Begged for ...
A thin black line from the cuticle kept growing. It was the sign of rare, aggressive subungual melanoma. She got a 2nd opinion, advocated for herself.
Desmoplastic melanoma (neurotropic melanoma, spindled melanoma) Lentigo maligna (lentiginous melanoma on sun-damaged skin) Lentigo maligna melanoma; Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus (Spitzoid melanoma) Melanoma with small nevus-like cells (small cell melanoma) Mucosal melanoma; Nevoid melanoma; Nodular melanoma; Polypoid melanoma
Treatment for melanoma depends on how advanced it is and where the tumor is located. McMichael says doctors will look at the tumor’s depth, how quickly cells are dividing and other factors to ...