Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg Pathol. 2018 Nov;42(11):1456–1465. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000001134

TABLE 1.

Primary Cutaneous Melanomas With Diffuse (4+) PRAME IHC Expression

Melanoma Type In Situ Only Invasive Total
Superficial spreading 12/12 37/41 49/53
Lentigo maligna 24/27 15/17 39/44
Acral 7/7 10/11 17/18
Nodular NA 9/10 9/10
Other* 2/2 6/8 8/10
Subtotal 45/48 77/87 122/135
Desmoplastic NA 7/20 7/20
Total 45/48 84/107 129/155
*

This category includes (proportion of cases with 4+ PRAME): lentiginous vulvar in situ melanomas (2/2), nevoid melanoma (2/2), malignant melanoma exblue nevus (0/1), cutaneous paramucosal (3/3), and unclassified invasive melanomas (1/2).

Subtotal = all melanomas except for desmoplastic melanomas.

This category comprises (proportion of cases with 4+ PRAME): spindle cell melanomas with variable desmoplasia, including pure (0/4) and mixed (6/14) desmoplastic melanomas, and spindle cell neurotropic (1/2) melanomas.

NA indicates not available.