A Rare Case of Subungual Melanoma

A 51-year-old male presented with blackish discoloration of nails of 10 months duration. Examination revealed black dystrophic left thumb finger nail. Detailed examination showed a mass under the dystrophic nail. Hutchinson sign was positive. Histopathology revealed characteristic features of melano...

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Autores principales: Verma, Rajesh, Kakkar, Sunita, Vasudevan, Biju, Rana, Vandana, Mitra, Debdeep, Neema, Shekar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25814711
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.152526
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author Verma, Rajesh
Kakkar, Sunita
Vasudevan, Biju
Rana, Vandana
Mitra, Debdeep
Neema, Shekar
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description A 51-year-old male presented with blackish discoloration of nails of 10 months duration. Examination revealed black dystrophic left thumb finger nail. Detailed examination showed a mass under the dystrophic nail. Hutchinson sign was positive. Histopathology revealed characteristic features of melanoma. A detailed evaluation revealed no features of local or distant metastasis. The entire lesion was then removed surgically along with disarticulation at the interphalangeal joint. Resection-free margin was confirmed. This case is being reported for the rare occurrence of subungual melanoma in the Indian population and also for presentation with a long history of lesion with no evidence of metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-43729152015-03-26 A Rare Case of Subungual Melanoma Verma, Rajesh Kakkar, Sunita Vasudevan, Biju Rana, Vandana Mitra, Debdeep Neema, Shekar Indian J Dermatol Case Report A 51-year-old male presented with blackish discoloration of nails of 10 months duration. Examination revealed black dystrophic left thumb finger nail. Detailed examination showed a mass under the dystrophic nail. Hutchinson sign was positive. Histopathology revealed characteristic features of melanoma. A detailed evaluation revealed no features of local or distant metastasis. The entire lesion was then removed surgically along with disarticulation at the interphalangeal joint. Resection-free margin was confirmed. This case is being reported for the rare occurrence of subungual melanoma in the Indian population and also for presentation with a long history of lesion with no evidence of metastasis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4372915/ /pubmed/25814711 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.152526 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology 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.
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