In this study we analysed snap-frozen surgical resections of 16 superficial spreading melanomas, 13 nodular malignant melanomas, 2 lentigo maligna melanomas, 1 dysplastic nevus, 1 congenital nevus and 5 normal nevi from 38 patients for point mutations in the human p53 gene at exons 5-8 by polymerase chain reaction/single-strand conformation polymorphism as well as for loss of heterozygosity of p53 by restriction-fragment-length polymorphism/polymerase chain reaction in order to determine whether p53 aberrations are associated with melanoma subtypes.
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Hutchinson's Melanotic Freckle