Dispelling the myth of the "benign hair sign" for melanoma. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The vast majority of melanocytic lesions with hair, such as congenital melanocytic nevi, are benign. However, there is a notion that the presence of one or more hairs in a melanocytic lesion is confirmatory for the benign nature of the lesion. To dispel this notion, we present 3 examples of melanocytic lesions that showed terminal hairs on clinical and dermoscopic evaluation, but in which the final diagnosis was invasive melanoma. Thus, integrating all clinical and dermoscopic findings, rather than relying on a single criterion for the lesion at hand should guide clinicians to the correct diagnosis.

publication date

  • December 5, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Hair
  • Melanoma
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Skin Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33847076202

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.jaad.2006.10.009

PubMed ID

  • 17156892

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 56

issue

  • 3