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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Invest Dermatol. 2010 Oct 14;131(2):461–467. doi: 10.1038/jid.2010.298

Table 2.

Number of persons with at least one synchronous melanoma and by number of metachronous melanomas by behavior of index melanoma

In situ Invasive Total
N % N % N %
Number of additional melanomas

0 199 76.0 663 80.8 862 79.6
Synchronous melanomas only
2 0.8 11 1.3 13 1.2
Metachronous melanomas
1 33 12.6 93 11.3 126 11.6
2 14 5.3 28 3.4 42 3.9
3 8 3.1 13 1.6 21 1.9
4 3 1.1 7 0.9 10 0.9
5 2 0.8 6 0.7 8 0.7
≥6 1 0.4 0 0.0 1 0.1

Total 262 821 1083