"Lentigo" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Small circumscribed melanoses resembling, but differing histologically from, freckles. The concept includes senile lentigo ('liver spots') and nevoid lentigo (nevus spilus, lentigo simplex) and may also occur in association with multiple congenital defects or congenital syndromes (e.g., Peutz-Jeghers syndrome).
| Descriptor ID |
D007911
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C17.800.621.430.530.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Lentigo- Lentigo
- Lentigos
- Lentigines
- Lentiginosis
- Lentiginoses
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lentigo" by people in Profiles.
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Results of the 2016 International Skin Imaging Collaboration International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging challenge: Comparison of the accuracy of computer algorithms to dermatologists for the diagnosis of melanoma from dermoscopic images. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2018 02; 78(2):270-277.e1.
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Developmental SHP2 dysfunction underlies cardiac hypertrophy in Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines. J Clin Invest. 2016 08 01; 126(8):2989-3005.
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An old debate, rekindled. J Cutan Pathol. 2015 Mar; 42(3):227.
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Contiguous lesions in lentigo maligna. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005 May; 52(5):859-62.