Top 10 Differential Diagnoses for Desmoplastic Melanoma

ConclusionDesmoplastic melanoma is often a difficult diagnosis to make, as it frequently shows nonspecific clinical findings and overlapping histologic features with many other tumors. However, the potential clinical and prognostic consequences of misdiagnosis as another entity are great. Therefore, this diagnosis must always be kept in mind when encountering spindle cell tumors affecting the head and neck area.

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Source: Head and Neck Pathology - March 16, 2023 Category: Pathology Source Type: research