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Clark levels
Pronunciation
A system for describing how deep skin cancer has spread into the skin. Levels I-V describe the layers of skin involved. (NCI Dictionary)
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Skin cancer that has spread down into the subcutaneous tissue (tissue beneath the skin).
A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the subcutaneous tissue.
Skin cancer that has spread down into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).
A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the reticular dermis.
Skin cancer that has spread down through the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis) but not into the reticular…
A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the entire thickness of the papillary dermis but the malignant cellular infiltrate…
