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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).
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A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the subcutaneous tissue.
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Skin cancer that has spread down into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).
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A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the reticular dermis.
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Skin cancer that has spread down through the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis) but not into the reticular…
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A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the entire thickness of the papillary dermis but the malignant cellular infiltrate…
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