Protocol for the Examination of Specimens From Patients With Melanoma of the Skin

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Authors David P. Frishberg, MD, FCAP* Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California Charles Balch, MD Departments of Surgery, Oncology, and Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Bonnie L. Balzer, MD, PhD, FCAP Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California A. Neil Crowson, MD, FCAP Regional Medical Laboratory, Departments of Dermatology, Pathology and Surgery, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma Mukund Didolkar, MD, FACS Division of Surgical Oncology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Alexander Lazar, MD, PhD, FCAP Department of Pathology and Dermatology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas Jennifer M. McNiff, MD, FASCP Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine Roger R Perry, MD, FACS Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia Victor G. Prieto, MD, PhD, FCAP Departments of Pathology and Dermatology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas Priya Rao, MD, FCAP Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas M. Timothy Smith, MD Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina Bruce Robert Smoller, MD, FCAP Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas Mark R. Wick, MD, FCAP Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia For the Members of the Cancer Committee, College of American Pathologists