Hyperkeratotic Acral Melanoma Mimicking a Common Wart

Acral melanoma is a great pretender; anything but i nfrequently, it adopts clinical faces, simulating skin conditions that make the healthcare provider diagnose it as a benign disease of the palms, soles, and ungual regions. We present a case of a hyperkeratotic acral melanoma that has been misdiagn...

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Autores principales: Vindigni, Vincenzo, Scarpa, Carlotta, Bassetto, Franco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25973355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000336
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author Vindigni, Vincenzo
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description Acral melanoma is a great pretender; anything but i nfrequently, it adopts clinical faces, simulating skin conditions that make the healthcare provider diagnose it as a benign disease of the palms, soles, and ungual regions. We present a case of a hyperkeratotic acral melanoma that has been misdiagnosed and that has led to an amputation of the thumb.
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spelling pubmed-44222082015-05-13 Hyperkeratotic Acral Melanoma Mimicking a Common Wart Vindigni, Vincenzo Scarpa, Carlotta Bassetto, Franco Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Case Reports Acral melanoma is a great pretender; anything but i nfrequently, it adopts clinical faces, simulating skin conditions that make the healthcare provider diagnose it as a benign disease of the palms, soles, and ungual regions. We present a case of a hyperkeratotic acral melanoma that has been misdiagnosed and that has led to an amputation of the thumb. Wolters Kluwer Health 2015-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4422208/ /pubmed/25973355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000336 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
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title_short Hyperkeratotic Acral Melanoma Mimicking a Common Wart
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422208/
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