This month in JAAD International, Yardman-Frank et al report on discordance in the Breslow depth and histopathologic subtype between community pathologists and expert dermatopathologists. 1 Yardman-Frank J.M. Bronner B. Rosso S. et al. Comparison of community pathologists with expert dermatopathologists evaluating Breslow thickness and histopathologic subtype in a large international population-based study of melanoma.

JAAD Int. 2021; 4: 25-27

Given the high stakes involved for staging, prognostics, and therapeutics—such as the appropriateness of sentinel node biopsy—understanding the amount of weight that should be placed on these 2 elements of pathology reports is an important consideration for general dermatologists.