Primary bilateral malignant melanoma of the lower limbs

Malignant melanoma is the eighth most common cancer in European women. Its incidence is increasing rapidly and it has been demonstrated that this is related to sun exposure. Although few cases of bilateral uveal or choroidal melanoma are described in literature, there are no cases reporting bilatera...

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Autores principales: Lembo, Serena, Megna, Matteo, Maddalena, Paolo, Monfrecola, Ambra, Balato, Anna, Baldo, Antonello
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4211534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25386272
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/dr.2011.e20
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author Lembo, Serena
Megna, Matteo
Maddalena, Paolo
Monfrecola, Ambra
Balato, Anna
Baldo, Antonello
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Megna, Matteo
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description Malignant melanoma is the eighth most common cancer in European women. Its incidence is increasing rapidly and it has been demonstrated that this is related to sun exposure. Although few cases of bilateral uveal or choroidal melanoma are described in literature, there are no cases reporting bilateral cutaneous malignant melanoma. We report a singular case of a 43-year-old woman with two primary bilateral melanomas localized on the flexural surface of both legs.
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spelling pubmed-42115342014-11-10 Primary bilateral malignant melanoma of the lower limbs Lembo, Serena Megna, Matteo Maddalena, Paolo Monfrecola, Ambra Balato, Anna Baldo, Antonello Dermatol Reports Case Report Malignant melanoma is the eighth most common cancer in European women. Its incidence is increasing rapidly and it has been demonstrated that this is related to sun exposure. Although few cases of bilateral uveal or choroidal melanoma are described in literature, there are no cases reporting bilateral cutaneous malignant melanoma. We report a singular case of a 43-year-old woman with two primary bilateral melanomas localized on the flexural surface of both legs. PAGEPress Publications 2011-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4211534/ /pubmed/25386272 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/dr.2011.e20 Text en ©Copyright S. Lembo et al., 2011 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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title Primary bilateral malignant melanoma of the lower limbs
title_full Primary bilateral malignant melanoma of the lower limbs
title_fullStr Primary bilateral malignant melanoma of the lower limbs
title_full_unstemmed Primary bilateral malignant melanoma of the lower limbs
title_short Primary bilateral malignant melanoma of the lower limbs
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4211534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25386272
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/dr.2011.e20
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