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Clark Level III
Definition 1
A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the entire thickness of the papillary dermis but the malignant cellular infiltrate does not extend into the reticular dermis. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Melanoma that has spread down through the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis) but not into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis). (NCI Dictionary)
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