Tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma

We report a case of axillary lymphadenopathy thirty years after a decorative tattoo clinically mimicking metastatic melanoma. The importance of relying on histological confirmation of metastatic disease before altering extent of surgery is discussed. The importance of recording presence of decorativ...

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Autores principales: Jack, CM, Adwani, A, Krishnan, H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16321151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-2-28
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spelling pubmed-13252372006-01-07 Tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma Jack, CM Adwani, A Krishnan, H Int Semin Surg Oncol Case Report We report a case of axillary lymphadenopathy thirty years after a decorative tattoo clinically mimicking metastatic melanoma. The importance of relying on histological confirmation of metastatic disease before altering extent of surgery is discussed. The importance of recording presence of decorative tattoos is stressed. BioMed Central 2005-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC1325237/ /pubmed/16321151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-2-28 Text en Copyright © 2005 Jack et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Adwani, A
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Tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma
title Tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma
title_full Tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma
title_fullStr Tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma
title_full_unstemmed Tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma
title_short Tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma
title_sort tattoo pigment in an axillary lymph node simulating metastatic malignant melanoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16321151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-2-28
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