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Skin, Soft Tissue & Wounds

Section colour · Ch 10 · Skin, Soft Tissue & Wounds

12 devices — the adjudicated READY set of the Mnemonics Production Dossier: every device verified against named sources in the adjudication pass, its canonical form, variants and rejected forms printed exactly as that pass fixed them.

Card 1 of 12: ABCDE

📖 Ch 10 · Skin, Soft Tissue & Wounds

M-180

ABCDE

Melanoma features in a pigmented lesion

The expansion is concealed — recall it letter by letter first, then flip the card and grade yourself honestly.

M-180 · ABCDE

The expansion

Asymmetry
Border irregularity (or poorly defined)
Colour (varying colours)
Diameter (>6 mm)
Evolving (changing in size, colour or shape)

Variants & notes — as the dossier prints them

Older form: ABCD (E = Evolving added later — BMJ Best Practice)
NCI glosses differ slightly ("Color that is uneven"; "Border that is irregular — edges often ragged, notched, or blurred") — same device, different glosses

Hangs on

📖 Ch 10 · Skin, Soft Tissue & Wounds

Sources

Geeky Medics, Medical Mnemonics + Malignant Melanoma
NCI, "Moles to Melanoma" ABCDE rule
NYU Langone (originators of the criteria)
BMJ Best Practice (ABCD history)
Addendum Ch 12 (named, expansion not printed)
INT Phase 2 #11

Grade yourself — spaced repetition

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