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Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast
Cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast can be divided into two categories: primary and metastatic lesions. Cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast is a rare tumor, accounting for less than 5% of all malignant melanomas. Clinical features and diagnostic methods of primary cutaneous malignant m...
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The Korean Surgical Society
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23230558 http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/jkss.2012.83.6.388 |
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author | Kim, Seon Kwang Kim, Young Wook Youn, Hyun Jo Park, Ho Sung Jung, Sung Hoo |
author_facet | Kim, Seon Kwang Kim, Young Wook Youn, Hyun Jo Park, Ho Sung Jung, Sung Hoo |
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description | Cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast can be divided into two categories: primary and metastatic lesions. Cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast is a rare tumor, accounting for less than 5% of all malignant melanomas. Clinical features and diagnostic methods of primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast are similar to those arising from other cutaneous areas. Treatment of choice is wide local excision with adequate resection margin according to tumor thickness. Sentinel lymph node biopsy should be performed because the presence of lymph node metastasis is the most important prognostic factor. There have been only limited reports involving primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast. Thus, we report a case of primary cutaneous malignant melanoma in a 59-year-old woman with a review of the recent literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-35144822012-12-10 Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast Kim, Seon Kwang Kim, Young Wook Youn, Hyun Jo Park, Ho Sung Jung, Sung Hoo J Korean Surg Soc Case Report Cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast can be divided into two categories: primary and metastatic lesions. Cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast is a rare tumor, accounting for less than 5% of all malignant melanomas. Clinical features and diagnostic methods of primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast are similar to those arising from other cutaneous areas. Treatment of choice is wide local excision with adequate resection margin according to tumor thickness. Sentinel lymph node biopsy should be performed because the presence of lymph node metastasis is the most important prognostic factor. There have been only limited reports involving primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast. Thus, we report a case of primary cutaneous malignant melanoma in a 59-year-old woman with a review of the recent literature. The Korean Surgical Society 2012-12 2012-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3514482/ /pubmed/23230558 http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/jkss.2012.83.6.388 Text en Copyright © 2012, the Korean Surgical Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Journal of the Korean Surgical Society is an Open Access Journal. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Kim, Seon Kwang Kim, Young Wook Youn, Hyun Jo Park, Ho Sung Jung, Sung Hoo Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast |
title | Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast |
title_full | Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast |
title_fullStr | Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast |
title_full_unstemmed | Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast |
title_short | Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast |
title_sort | primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the breast |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23230558 http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/jkss.2012.83.6.388 |
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