6 Special Sites Sarah Persing and Deepak Narayan     INTRODUCTION Melanocytes are derived from the neural crest and are widely distributed throughout cutaneous and various mucosal sites. Although melanomas…

8 Lymph Node Dissection Daniel C. Thomas and Dale Han     INDICATIONS Lymphadenectomy is indicated for the treatment of macroscopic or microscopic melanoma metastatic to associated nodal basin draining…

10 Radiation Therapy Skyler B. Johnson and Roy H. Decker     RADIOBIOLOGY New and emerging data have recently challenged the belief that malignant melanoma is a radioresistant tumor (1)….

1 Epidemiology and Screening of Pigmented Lesions Veronica J. Shi and Jonathan Scott Leventhal     INTRODUCTION Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes that typically develop in the skin…