FIGURES A1-A5
These images are of the first of a sequential set of specimens from the same lesion that will be further illustrated in figures B1-B5 and C1-C4. Figures A1-A5 illustrate a small incisional biopsy when the lesion was not pandermal. It only extended to about the mid portion of the reticular dermis.

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Low power showing lentiginous and junctional moderate melanocytic dysplasia in the epidermis overlying the dermal component. The papillary dermis is widened by a mixture of tumor cells, inflammatory cells, and fibrous tissue. Scattered tumor cells are in the reticular dermis.
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High power of above.
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Atypical cells loosely and irregularly represented in a widened papillary dermis (top of this picture) and extending between superficial reticular dermis collagen bundles.
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Sclerosis with coarsening of collagen bundles of the reticular dermis. Scattered tumor cells having minimal atypia plus a few scattered inflammatory cells also present.
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Same as in the above picture, high power.
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