Other symptoms of nail melanoma include: Skin discoloration ... which causes the nail to lift away from the nail bed or ...

The differential diagnosis ... such as a melanoma, with microscopic examination of both the nail plate and the biopsy specimen from the underlying nail matrix and/or nail bed.

After margin-controlled complete excision of the whole nail matrix, the suspected diagnosis of melanoma in situ was confirmed in histopathology. Subungual discolorations occur in up to 10 % of the ...

While most melanomas share some common symptoms, each type of melanoma can have its own set ... Under a nail, it may appear ...

Melanoma accounts for only 1% of skin cancers in the United States but results in the largest number of skin cancer deaths.