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Epidermotropic metastasis coexisting with multiple primary cutaneous malignant melanomas
J S Conejo-Mir1, F Camacho, J J Ríos
1Medical Surgical Dermatology and Venereology Department, V. Macarena University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Seville, Spain.
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 1, 1993
Summary
A patient with a history of malignant melanoma developed over 300 new pigmented lesions. Dermatopathology confirmed both metastatic and multiple primary melanomas, suggesting melanoma activation and dissemination.
Area of Science:
- Oncology
- Dermatology
- Pathology
Background:
- A 45-year-old male with a prior history of excised thoracic malignant melanoma presented with a sudden, widespread eruption of pigmented lesions.
- The patient's history included a malignant melanoma diagnosis and surgical excision four years prior to the current presentation.