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Implantation and Evaluation of Melanoma in the Murine Choroid via Optical Coherence Tomography
Published on: December 2, 2022
Malignant melanocytic trichoblastoma
Ramazi O Datiashvili1, Kouros Izadi, Santiago A Centurion
1Department of Pathology and Dermatology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA. datiasro@umdnj.edu
Abstract:
Trichoblastoma is an uncommon benign cutaneous neoplasm of the hair germ cell. The pigmented variety of the tumor is rare. There have only been a few case reports describing the malignant counterpart of trichoblastoma. There are no reports describing a pigmented variety of malignant trichoblastoma. We are presenting a case report of a 47-year-old patient with malignant trichoblastoma containing melanin deposits and propose to define this variety of the tumor as a separate entity: malignant melanocytic trichoblastoma.
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