Melanoma

Question 1

ABCDE of dermatology

Answer 1

Assymmetry 
Border
Colour
Diameter
Evolution

Question 2

What does a melanoma look like?

Answer 2

Asymmetrical
Irregular border
Variation in colour

Question 3

How would you diagnose melanoma?

Answer 3

Excisional biopsy

Question 4

What is the definitive treatment?

Answer 4

Wide surgical excision with reconstruction

Question 5

Prognosis is dependent on which two key factors?

Answer 5

Breslow’s depth

Involvement of cervical lymph nodes

Question 6

Melanoma is more common in men on the ______

Answer 6

torso

Question 7

Melanoma is more common in women on the ______

Answer 7

legs

Question 8

If it was spreading laterally and flat, what would you call it?

Answer 8

SUperifical spreading

Question 9

What do you call a melanoma that doesn’t have pigmentation?

Answer 9

Amelanotic lesion

Question 10

What do you call a melanoma of the nails? What kind of sign would you see?

Answer 10

Acral melanoma

Huctchington’s sign

Question 11

How do you diagnose melanoma? What’s the checklist?

Answer 11

Glasgow 7 point checklist

Question 12

What are the major features of a melonoma?

Answer 12

Change in size
Irregular shape
Irregular colour

Question 13

What is Breslow’s thickness?

Answer 13

How deeply the melanoma invades

Question 14

What staging is used?

Answer 14

Clarke’s staging