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A 3D Organotypic Melanoma Spheroid Skin Model
Published on: May 18, 2018
[Amelanotic malignant melanoma: about three cases]
B Mercadier1, W Hu, S Valentin
1Service de chirurgie orthopédique et plastique, hôpital de la Cavale-Blanche, boulevard Tanguy-Prigent, 29200 Brest, France. bmercadier12@hotmail.com
Annales De Chirurgie Plastique Et Esthetique
|October 13, 2006
Abstract:
The amelanotic melanoma is a rare type of malignant melanoma. The purpose of this report is to point out this aspect of melanoma, whose diagnostic delay is frequent. We describe one localisation on the penis, rare in this kind of melanoma and two cases of the extremities, more frequent localization of the amelanotic melanoma. The therapeutic issues and recommendation are similar to the classical pigmented malignant melanoma.
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