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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Melanoma Res. 2018 Jun;28(3):237–245. doi: 10.1097/CMR.0000000000000439

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Desmoplastic melanoma. Microscopic images of a desmoplastic melanoma excision showing a low-power view of an effaced epidermis overlying sun-damaged skin containing an invasive, infiltrative spindle cell proliferation with scattered intratumoral lymphoid aggregates (A, H&E 2x). Deep within the dermis, the spindled melanocytes are seen within a desmoplastic stroma (B, H&E 4x) with scattered lymphoid aggregates among the malignant cells (C, H&E 10x). Cytologically, the melanocytes display significant pleomorphism and mitotic activity (D, H&E 20x).