Punches from a pigment-cell tumour

Punch biopsy of a melanoma: only a small portion of the tumour was recorded by the biopsy, in which the melanoma cells are lying mainly in nests at the dermo-epidermal junction. In this way, it mimics a naevus. The greater part of the biopsate consists of non-diseased dermal connective tissue and fatty tissue.

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