cutaneous melanoma
MONDO:0005012Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names cutaneous melanoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A primary melanoma arising from atypical melanocytes in the skin. Precursor lesions include acquired and congenital melanocytic nevi, and dysplastic nevi. Several histologic variants have been recognized, including superficial spreading melanoma, acral lentiginous melanoma, nodular melanoma, and lentigo maligna melanoma.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005012), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
Other names
13 names
Resolves to: cutaneous melanoma
- Also called
- cutaneous (skin) melanomacutaneous melanoma (disease)malignant cutaneous melanomamalignant melanoma (of skin), stage unspecifiedmalignant melanoma of skinmalignant melanoma of skin stage unspecifiedmelanoma (disease) of zone of skinmelanoma of skinmelanoma of the skinskin melanomaskin, melanomazone of skin melanomazone of skin melanoma (disease)