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Streaks

 
   
  • Pseudopods and radial streaming are considered as a single criterion
  • Both features correlate histopathologically to confluent junctional nests of melanocytes

 
  Definition: more or less confluent, linear structures regularly or irregularly distributed at the edge of the lesion and not clearly combined with pigment network lines

 
  Irregular streaks
in a melanoma

 Regular streaks in a Reed nevus