What's the difference between lentiginous and lentigo?
Lentiginous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.
Example Sentences:
(1) These six lesions would have been diagnosed as simple "lentigines" if the serial sections had not been examined.
(2) The recent proposal that acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a distinct clinico-histological entity, however, is more difficult to accept.
(3) Lack of response to therapy led to a repeat biopsy which showed malignant melanoma, acral lentiginous type, level IV.
(4) The authors conclude the sun-induced freckles in the young may consist of a hyperplasia of melanocytes (i.e., similar to solar lentigines in the elderly), sometimes with cellular atypia, and that these findings may be relevant to melanocytic neoplasia.
(5) Increasing awareness about the occurrence of acral lentiginous melanoma may result in earlier diagnosis, increased survival rates, and cure.
(6) Lesions referred to as simple "lentigines" may actually be lentiginous nevi.
(7) AFH1 recognition of the lentiginous portion of dysplastic nevi corresponds statistically to the appearance of abnormal melanocyte cytology, nest formation, or both.
(8) No lentiginous proliferation was evident and epidermal pigmentation had become normal.
(9) This low incidence and the anatomo-clinical manifestations observed (lentiginous melanoma of extremities) are common in coloured people.
(10) There is some doubt as to whether naevus pilus is identical with naevus-on-naevus or lentiginous naevus en mottes.
(11) Other benign pigmented lesions include lentigines, melanosis, postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, seborrheic keratoses, and warts.
(12) The advisability of introducing a new category of acral lentiginous melanoma is therefore questioned.
(13) Histologically and clinically, plantar lentiginous melanoma (PLM) is characterized by a period of radial growth and often by one or more foci of regression.
(14) Computerized image analysis was used to compare lentigines (brown freckle-like cutaneous spots) induced by treatment with psoralens and ultraviolet light A (PUVA-induced lentigines) with those induced by solar exposure (actinic lentigines).
(15) The most common histological subtype was acral lentiginous melanoma.
(16) The cutaneous manifestations are the very early occurrence of lentigines on the face, around the hiatus, and on the lips.
(17) The dysplastic cells show either lentiginous or epithelioid dysplasia.
(18) Speckled lentiginous nevus is, we feel, a distinctive nevocytic disorder and a clinical variety of nevus-cell nevus.
(19) Widespread lentigines in fourteen patients following long-term therapy with psoralens and ultraviolet A (PUVA) for psoriasis were documented by biopsy of a representative lesion in a non-sun-exposed site.
(20) Among the symptoms of the syndrome lentigines, ECG-abnormalities, pulmonal-stenosis, retardation of growth and deafness show the strongest penetrance and are most constantly found.
Lentigo
Definition:
(n.) A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The epidermis covering the tumor node is infiltrated by some tumor cells but the characteristic alterations as described above for the various stadia of lentigo maligna are no longer visible.
(2) The consistency of this classification was tested by two Brisbane pathologists who indicated that we had misinterpreted some cases of superficial spreading malignant melanoma as lentigo maligna melanoma.
(3) This report documents the development of multiple cutaneous tumors, including squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, actinic keratoses, keratoacanthomas, and one case of lentigo maligna, in seven patients who received topical therapies for mycosis fungoides.
(4) Lentigo maligna is a precancerosis or a melanoma in situ, whose level of malignancy has not yet been definitively clarified.
(5) Ultrastructural examination of tissue from the neoplasm showed a well-developed protein framework similar in appearance to that seen in the slowly progressive lentigo maligna form of malignant melanoma from the general body skin.
(6) Two patients developed invasive lentigo maligna melanoma while on treatment.
(7) Progressive cranial nerve palsies and painful ophthalmoplegia developed in a 76-year-old man with lentigo maligna of the forehead 18 months after the excision of a spindle cell tumour of the forehead that proved on immunohistochemical study to be a malignant melanoma.
(8) In the lentigo maligna melanoma, the pigment cells clearly show dendritic processes, and emit specific green fluorescence.
(9) Evidence from several studies has established that a solitary benign lichenoid keratosis evolves from a senile lentigo.
(10) The sole new melanoma detected was an extended lentigo maligna melanoma on the right cheek, which had not been noted during a prophylactic medical examination (!)
(11) Histologic studies have shown the evolution of lentigo senilis and have established the relationship between lentigo senilis, solitary lichen planus-like keratosis, and the reticulated form of seborrheic verruca.
(12) A patient with an amelanotic lentigo malignant melanoma is presented which manifested itself initially as an erythematous flare with the subsequent development of nodules.
(14) This resulted in a total series of 37 (5.5%) lentigo maligna melanomas, 301 (45%) superficial spreading malignant melanomas, 194 (29%) nodular malignant melanomas (unchanged) and 137 (20.5%) unclassifiable malignant melanomas.
(15) After adjusting for differences in thickness and level in this study, no statistically significant differences were apparent between case survival rates for the nodular lesions and the lentigo maligna and superficial spreading melanomas.
(16) Lentigo maligna melanoma appears to have a longer duration and better prognosis than SSM or NM.
(17) The patient developed lentigo maligna on the right side of the nose.
(18) A further stadium shows pathological alterations resembling a lentigo with long rete ridges.
(19) The series included 86 lentigo maligna melanomas, 259 superficial spreading malignant melanomas, 194 nodular malignant melanomas and 130 unclassifiable malignant melanomas.
(20) The primary lesion, a lentigo maligna melanoma of the face, recurred after excision and metastasized to the parotid and upper cervical lymph nodes, and to the lungs.