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Samiksha Pradhan1, Karan Sancheti1, Indrashis Podder1
1Department of Dermatology, Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Indian Journal of Dermatology
|December 18, 2015
Abstract:
Malignant melanoma is an invasive neoplasm of the skin, whose incidence is reported to be rising among Indians. We hereby present a unique case of unilateral, multiple, asymptomatic, pigmented, nodular lesions over the lower limb; resembling vascular tumor, revealing itself as malignant melanoma only on histopathology. To the best of our knowledge, such a unique presentation of malignant melanoma has not yet been reported from the Indian subcontinent.
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