A Case of Pediatric Melanoma: Treatment Considerations in Advanced Disease

We document a 3-year-old healthy African American girl who developed malignant melanoma on her lower extremity. The clinical appearance offered little indication of the lesion’s severity (T4), and only the history of de novo presentation and disproportionate growth raised clinical suspicion. This ca...

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Autores principales: Albino, Frank P., Wood, Benjamin C., Oh, Albert, Rogers, Gary F., Sauerhammer, Tina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26090292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000370
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author Albino, Frank P.
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description We document a 3-year-old healthy African American girl who developed malignant melanoma on her lower extremity. The clinical appearance offered little indication of the lesion’s severity (T4), and only the history of de novo presentation and disproportionate growth raised clinical suspicion. This case report highlights the subtle clinical findings of this condition and presents controversies related to surgical management of pediatric melanoma.
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spelling pubmed-44572652015-06-18 A Case of Pediatric Melanoma: Treatment Considerations in Advanced Disease Albino, Frank P. Wood, Benjamin C. Oh, Albert Rogers, Gary F. Sauerhammer, Tina Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Case Report We document a 3-year-old healthy African American girl who developed malignant melanoma on her lower extremity. The clinical appearance offered little indication of the lesion’s severity (T4), and only the history of de novo presentation and disproportionate growth raised clinical suspicion. This case report highlights the subtle clinical findings of this condition and presents controversies related to surgical management of pediatric melanoma. Wolters Kluwer Health 2015-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4457265/ /pubmed/26090292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000370 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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