Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin

Cutaneous melanoma of the eyelid is a rare entity. We present a 53-year-old male who had a nevus on the left upper eyelid skin since childhood, which transformed into a huge ulcerated hanging mass in the same region. Excision of the mass was done and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of nodular...

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Autores principales: Pai, Radha R, Kini, Hema, Kamath, Sai Giridhar, Kumar, Suneet
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18417829
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author Pai, Radha R
Kini, Hema
Kamath, Sai Giridhar
Kumar, Suneet
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Kini, Hema
Kamath, Sai Giridhar
Kumar, Suneet
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description Cutaneous melanoma of the eyelid is a rare entity. We present a 53-year-old male who had a nevus on the left upper eyelid skin since childhood, which transformed into a huge ulcerated hanging mass in the same region. Excision of the mass was done and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of nodular malignant melanoma. A small preauricular lymph node showed metastatic melanoma on fine needle aspiration cytology.
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spelling pubmed-26361012009-02-10 Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin Pai, Radha R Kini, Hema Kamath, Sai Giridhar Kumar, Suneet Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communication Cutaneous melanoma of the eyelid is a rare entity. We present a 53-year-old male who had a nevus on the left upper eyelid skin since childhood, which transformed into a huge ulcerated hanging mass in the same region. Excision of the mass was done and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of nodular malignant melanoma. A small preauricular lymph node showed metastatic melanoma on fine needle aspiration cytology. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2636101/ /pubmed/18417829 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Pai, Radha R
Kini, Hema
Kamath, Sai Giridhar
Kumar, Suneet
Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin
title Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin
title_full Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin
title_fullStr Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin
title_full_unstemmed Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin
title_short Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin
title_sort giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18417829
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