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Tc-99m MIBI scintigraphy in a patient with primary and metastatic malignant melanoma
Seong Jang Kim1, Ju Won Seok, In Ju Kim
1Department of Nuclear Medicine and the Graduate School, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea.
Abstract:
Malignant melanoma is a rare malignant tumor arising within the melanocytes of the skin. The authors report a case of primary and metastatic malignant melanoma revealed with Tc-99m MIBI in one patient. Tc-99m MIBI images showed uptake in possible malignant melanoma skin lesions of the left calf and great toe of a 73-year-old man. Malignant melanomas (primary and metastatic) were diagnosed on excisional biopsies. Tc-99m MIBI scintigraphy might be useful not only in the diagnosis of possible primary malignant melanoma lesions but also in the diagnosis of metastatic or recurrent disease.