Primary Desmoplastic Melanoma of the Penis

Desmoplastic melanomas are rare amelanotic melanomas that usually occur on skin with sun exposure. In this report, we present a 72-year-old man who presented with a desmoplastic melanoma of the penis. To our knowledge this represents the first reported case of primary desmoplastic melanoma of the pe...

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Autores principales: Chu, Julia T., Liss, Michael A., Wu, William W., Dash, Atreya, Lu, Di
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26613063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/706572
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author Chu, Julia T.
Liss, Michael A.
Wu, William W.
Dash, Atreya
Lu, Di
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description Desmoplastic melanomas are rare amelanotic melanomas that usually occur on skin with sun exposure. In this report, we present a 72-year-old man who presented with a desmoplastic melanoma of the penis. To our knowledge this represents the first reported case of primary desmoplastic melanoma of the penis. We discuss the pathologic differential and histologic evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-46470202015-11-26 Primary Desmoplastic Melanoma of the Penis Chu, Julia T. Liss, Michael A. Wu, William W. Dash, Atreya Lu, Di Case Rep Urol Case Report Desmoplastic melanomas are rare amelanotic melanomas that usually occur on skin with sun exposure. In this report, we present a 72-year-old man who presented with a desmoplastic melanoma of the penis. To our knowledge this represents the first reported case of primary desmoplastic melanoma of the penis. We discuss the pathologic differential and histologic evaluation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4647020/ /pubmed/26613063 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/706572 Text en Copyright © 2015 Julia T. Chu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Primary Desmoplastic Melanoma of the Penis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647020/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/706572
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