TABLE 2.

Summary of Clinicopathologic Characteristics

Clinical Features
Age* (yr), mean ± SD	55.6 ± 23.9
Female sex,† n (%)	20 (38.5)
Lesion location,‡ n (%)
Trunk	19 (33.3)
Visceral metastases	6 (10.5)
Small bowel	4
Lung	2
Head/neck	15 (26.3)
Upper extremity	9 (15.8)
Lower extremity	8 (14.0)
Histopathologic features
Primary lesion size (cm), mean ± SD (range)	1.4 ± 1.3 (0.3–6.5)
Lesion classification
Benign nevus, n (%)	8 (14.0)
Borderline lesion, n (%)	16 (28.1)
Atypical Spitz tumor	8
Atypical nevus	6
Combined epithelioid melanocytoma associated with a nevus	1
Conventional nevus combined with an atypical Spitz nevus	1
Primary melanoma, n (%)	22 (38.6)
Not otherwise specified	6
Nodular	5
Superficial spreading	4
Nevoid	2
Spitzoid melanoma in situ	1
Superficial spreading and spindle cell	1
Dedifferentiated and spindled	1
Mixed spindled and desmoplastic	1
Melanoma in situ	1
Metastatic melanoma, n (%)	11 (19.3)
Breslow depth§ (mm), mean ± SD (range)	4.6 ± 4.2 (0.8–21.0)

^*At the time of biopsy.

^†n = 52 patients.

^‡n = 57 lesions.

^§Of confirmed primary melanomas (n = 22).