Liver spots, also called age spots, lentigines or lentigos. Lentigo is a type of brown skin lesion. Lentigo are caused by persistent sun exposure. It is usually found in the elderly (peak incidence in the 9th decade), on skin areas with high levels of sun exposure. Lentigo maligna melanoma is one of the 4 main subtypes of invasive melanoma and exemplifies 5-15% of cases.

Liver spots are flat brown-black spots which generally occur in sun-exposed regions of the body. Liver spots also named as age spots. Age spots are very often in adults older than age 40, they can affect younger people as well. The other types are uncritical spreading (70%), nodular, and acral lentiginous melanoma. They happen most often on the backs of the hands, on the forearms, shoulder, face, and forehead, areas of highest sun exposure.

Large liver spots may be contrarious to tell from skin cancer by lay persons. Symptoms of liver spots are lesions on the skin which emerge tan to brown. They are typically two to six centimeters in length and are asymmetricly shaped with darker spots.

Liver spots may be onerous to tell from skin cancer by lay persons. Surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy can all be used in the treatment of lentigo maligna. Liquid nitrogen is air which is so cold that it is in liquid form (-321ºF). The esthetician sprays the liquid nitrogen on the age spot and this causes the mark to turn white a month or so after treatment. Vitamin C An antioxidant, vitamin C helps tissue repair. Take 15 mg a day for one to two months. Noninvasive topical creams are also used.

After various months of application, tretinoin cream and hydroquinone cream can lessen lentigines. A broad-spectrum sunscreen may help to obviate further appearance and darkening of solar lentigines. Treatment of solar lentigines with a focal medium-depth chemical peel may be medically supercilious to treatment with cryosurgery. Kojic Acid is also a recently discovered, successful treatment of age spots and other pigment problems. It is not an alpha hydroxy acid, but fairly has the same mechanism of action as Hydroquinone.

Chemical peels perform best in people with blue eyes and light hair, but can be effective in all skin types. Another treatment for age spots is Retin-A. Retin-A cream is actuated to the spots once a day for six months.