English: Histopathology of a melanoma, which was located on the cheek of a 94 year-old female.
Top image: (H&E) There are nested and solitary crowded atypical melanocytes with small and large round hyperchromatic nuclei, some with increased pale cytoplasm, scattered within the spinous layer at and above the dermoepidermal junction of the hyperplastic epidermis and infundibulum that houses scale-crust.
Bottom image: (H&E) Crowded solitary and nested confluent atypical melanocytes within the ulcerated and crusted surface epidermis and infundibulum overlying dermal severe solar elastosis, patchy lymphocytes and numerous melanophages.