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Inflammatory metastatic melanoma
A Flórez1, D Sánchez-Aguilar, C Peteiro
1Department of Dermatology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Faculty of Medicine, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. mejaime@usc.es
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
|March 19, 1999
Abstract:
An 87-year-old woman developed erythema, induration and tenderness of the skin overlying each breast. One year before, she had undergone an axillary lymph node dissection because of metastases from melanoma. The primary site was unknown. A skin biopsy showed pigmented tumor nests within the dermal lymphatic vessels, and immunohistochemistry confirmed the melanocytic origin. The diagnosis of inflammatory metastatic melanoma was made.