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Breast cancer melanosis in a postmastectomy scar
V Marco1, J Autonell, L Cirera
1Department of Pathology, Hospital Mútua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.
Cancer
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
Pigmented skin lesions developed in the postmastectomy scar of a 42-year-old woman, 3 years after mastectomy, clinically mimicking malignant melanoma. A histologic study of the skin showed neoplastic mucin secreting glands and melanocyte colonization. Literature pertaining to melanin pigmentation of epithelial tumors not primary in the skin is reviewed.