Malignant Melanoma Arising in Red Tattoo Ink

We report the case of a 33-year-old male who presented with a malignant melanoma on his anterior chest wall. The lesion was only found in the red ink pigment of the tattoo, as were several in-transit dermal metastases. Possible explanations include a pre-existing lesion which was seeded with red ink...

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Autores principales: Joyce, Cormac Weekes, Duff, Gerald, McKenna, Dermot, Regan, Padraic James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217569
http://dx.doi.org/10.5999/aps.2015.42.4.475
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description We report the case of a 33-year-old male who presented with a malignant melanoma on his anterior chest wall. The lesion was only found in the red ink pigment of the tattoo, as were several in-transit dermal metastases. Possible explanations include a pre-existing lesion which was seeded with red ink or the possibility of the red ink causing an inflammatory reaction leading to malignant transformation. This is the first reported case of a melanoma developing in the red ink pigment of a multi-colored tattoo.
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spelling pubmed-45130572015-07-27 Malignant Melanoma Arising in Red Tattoo Ink Joyce, Cormac Weekes Duff, Gerald McKenna, Dermot Regan, Padraic James Arch Plast Surg Case Report We report the case of a 33-year-old male who presented with a malignant melanoma on his anterior chest wall. The lesion was only found in the red ink pigment of the tattoo, as were several in-transit dermal metastases. Possible explanations include a pre-existing lesion which was seeded with red ink or the possibility of the red ink causing an inflammatory reaction leading to malignant transformation. This is the first reported case of a melanoma developing in the red ink pigment of a multi-colored tattoo. The Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons 2015-07 2015-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4513057/ /pubmed/26217569 http://dx.doi.org/10.5999/aps.2015.42.4.475 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article 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.
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