MALIGNANT MELANOMA – CUTANEOUS METASTASES

Melanoma composed of melanocytes may arise in the skin or other tissues harboring melanocytes, such muco-cutaneous junctions, mucosa including the conjunctiva, iris, choroids and substantia nigra.1 Metastases to the skin and subcutaneous tissues from a malignant melanoma are less common. A case of m...

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Autores principales: Padmavathy, L, Lakshmana Rao, L, Ethirajan, N, Krishna Swamy, B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19882041
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44803
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author Padmavathy, L
Lakshmana Rao, L
Ethirajan, N
Krishna Swamy, B
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Ethirajan, N
Krishna Swamy, B
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description Melanoma composed of melanocytes may arise in the skin or other tissues harboring melanocytes, such muco-cutaneous junctions, mucosa including the conjunctiva, iris, choroids and substantia nigra.1 Metastases to the skin and subcutaneous tissues from a malignant melanoma are less common. A case of multiple painless nodules on the body that revealed metastatic deposits of melanoma on histopathological examination is being reported.
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spelling pubmed-27637512009-10-29 MALIGNANT MELANOMA – CUTANEOUS METASTASES Padmavathy, L Lakshmana Rao, L Ethirajan, N Krishna Swamy, B Indian J Dermatol Case Report Melanoma composed of melanocytes may arise in the skin or other tissues harboring melanocytes, such muco-cutaneous junctions, mucosa including the conjunctiva, iris, choroids and substantia nigra.1 Metastases to the skin and subcutaneous tissues from a malignant melanoma are less common. A case of multiple painless nodules on the body that revealed metastatic deposits of melanoma on histopathological examination is being reported. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2763751/ /pubmed/19882041 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44803 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Padmavathy, L
Lakshmana Rao, L
Ethirajan, N
Krishna Swamy, B
MALIGNANT MELANOMA – CUTANEOUS METASTASES
title MALIGNANT MELANOMA – CUTANEOUS METASTASES
title_full MALIGNANT MELANOMA – CUTANEOUS METASTASES
title_fullStr MALIGNANT MELANOMA – CUTANEOUS METASTASES
title_full_unstemmed MALIGNANT MELANOMA – CUTANEOUS METASTASES
title_short MALIGNANT MELANOMA – CUTANEOUS METASTASES
title_sort malignant melanoma – cutaneous metastases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19882041
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44803
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