Increasing incidence of lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma in Catalonia.

Background: Recent epidemiological studies suggest that past data where superficial spreading melanoma was by far the most common subtype of melanoma may not reflect current patterns of sun exposure or other risk factors more involved in other subtypes of melanoma as lentigo maligna (LM) or lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM).

Methods: In order to measure the current situation in our country, all cases of LM and LMM diagnosed in 23 hospitals in Catalonia, from 2000 to 2007, were recorded.

Results: Although for the global period LM/LMM represented only 8.

Melanoma incidence increases in the elderly of Catalonia but not in the younger population: effect of prevention or consequence of immigration?

All cases of MM diagnosed in 23 hospitals in Catalonia, from 2000 to 2007 were recorded and melanoma incidence calculated and adjusted for the European standard population via the direct method. The age standardised rate/100,000 inhabitants varied from 6.74 in 2000 to 8.

The ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-clefting syndrome (EEC): report of five cases.

We report five patients from two different pedigrees with the ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-clefting syndrome (EEC). All had features of ectodermal dysplasia, but only three had limb ectrodactyly and orofacial clefting. The present patients illustrate the great phenotypic variability in the EEC syndrome.