Acral lentiginous melanoma is a kind of skin melanoma. It is also known as Subungual Melanoma. It is seen on the palms, soles and under the nails. This is the most common form of melanoma in Asians and Blacks. The average age at diagnosis is between sixty years-of-age and seventy. It also occurs in Caucasians and in young people. This type of melanoma occurs on non hair baring surfaces of the body which may or may not be exposed to sun light. The following codes are used with International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ... The following is a list of codes for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ... Skin cancer, close-up of level IV melanoma Melanoma is a malignant tumour of melanocytes . ... The term Asian in a geographical sense simply refers to something or someone from Asia. ... The term Blacks is often used in the West to denote race for persons whose progenitors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Typical symptoms include:
longitudinal tan, black, or brown streak on a finger or toe nail (melanonychia striata)
areas of dark pigmentation on palms of hands or soles of feet
Any new area of pigmentation or an existing one that shows change should be checked by a dermatologist. If caught early this type of melanoma has a similar cure rate as the other types of superficial spreading melanoma.
Acrallentiginousmelanoma is the most common type of melanoma found in individuals with darkly pigmented skin (natives of Asia, India, Africa, and African-Americans); it also constitutes a smaller proportion of all melanomas found in fair-skinned persons [1, 2, 3, 4].
Acrallentiginousmelanoma is found on the digits, palms, soles, dorsum of the foot, and in the subungual area [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].
Acrallentiginousmelanoma can be mistaken for a variety of alternative diagnoses, including verruca, corn or callus, eccrine poroma, pyogenic granuloma, ischemic ulceration, mal perforans from a peripheral neuropathy, gangrene, superficial fungal infection, traumatic residual, foreign body, and benign nevus [10, 11, 13].
Melanoma is a type of cancer originating from the cells that give color to the skin.
Treatment of melanoma that has not spread beyond the original area of growth (especially if it is thin and has not invaded the primary dermis) is highly effective, and most of these cancers can be cured.
Melanoma that has spread to distant sites is infrequently curable with standard therapy, although long-term survival is occasionally achieved by resection of metastasis.
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