Melanoma. What Does It Look Like?

Melanoma can be presented with various colours, sizes, shapes and symptoms. Often they are pigmented, however, occasionally they can be colourless.

Melanoma is not something you can diagnose by just looking at them, even specially trained doctors need to examine the lesion with a special instrument (detmatoscope) to detect abnormal feature.

Attached is a gallery showing some of the melanoma we had encountered.

Hutchinson Melanoma Freckle

Melanoma Insitu

Invasive Melanoma (Breslow Thickness 2.5mm)

Melanoma Insitu (Resemble The Shape of a Love Heart)

Melanoma insitu, totally asymptomatic and subtle on dermatoscopy.

Melanoma insitu (this one is tiny on a young female's calf, it is obvious when viewing it with a dermatoscope_