Primary part of the project: Patients in dermatological outpatient routine care in Helsingborg, Lund or Malmö Hospitals. Patients are planned for surgical excision for an equivocal pigmented skin lesion that could be a primary melanoma or a differential diagnosis of melanoma
Secondary part of the project: . Patient, in surgical or oncological routine care in Helsingborg, Lund, Malmö or Kristianstad Hospitals. Patients are planned for surgical excision or cytological diagnostics (needle aspiration) of metastatic melanoma.
All subjects have to be able to provide written informed consent.
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Patients with lesions, primary or secondary, that are so small that a punch biopsy for the study would risk affecting the histopathological diagnosis.
Clareo Health | BioMEL- Diagnostic and Prognostic Factors in Melanoma.
