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The incidence of malignant melanoma has consistently increased since the beginning of the century: affecting i in 1,500 of the population in 1935 the incidence at the end of the 1980’s is approximately around 1/130 and will be 1/90 by the year 2,000. There is a great variation between different populations.
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Coeffic, D. et al. (1998). Malignant melanoma. In: Buthiau, D., Khayat, D. (eds) CT and MRI in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46842-1_40
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