Facial naevus count in the identification of patients at higher risk of melanoma-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Facial naevus count in the identification of patients at higher risk of melanoma

Published:2023-07-06 Issue:5 Volume:189 Page:626-628
ISSN:0007-0963
Container-title:British Journal of Dermatology
language:en
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Author:

Giuffrida Roberta¹^ORCID,Zanin Poletto Gustavo²,Guarneri Fabrizio¹^ORCID,Conforti Claudio³^ORCID,Guarneri Claudio⁴^ORCID,Hofmann-Wellenhof Rainer⁵^ORCID,Zalaudek Iris³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Dermatology

2. Private Clinic , São Miguel do Oeste, Santa Catarina , Brazil

3. Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University of Trieste , Ospedale Maggiore, Trieste , Italy

4. Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho Functional Imaging, University of Messina , Messina , Italy

5. Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Graz , Graz , Austria

Abstract

A high total body naevus count (TBNC) is a major risk factor for melanoma. The aim of our study was to investigate the correlation between the number of facial naevi and TBNC, and how the patient variables could influence this association. Our findings suggest that facial naevus count is a fast, easy and economical tool to identify individuals with a high TBNC and may be useful as screening method for physicians in all medical fields.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Dermatology

Link

https://academic.oup.com/bjd/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/bjd/ljad216/51208380/ljad216.pdf

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