Unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: A case report

We present an unusual case of melanoma in a 76-year-old female covering approximately 80% of her scalp. Partial sampling of the lesion revealed focal blue nevus-like features at the microscopic level. We discuss issues related to blue nevus-like melanomas and highlight the unique clinical presentati...

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Autores principales: George, Sheenagh JK, Green, Peter, Walsh, Noreen MG
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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JCMS Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31065360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19847063
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description We present an unusual case of melanoma in a 76-year-old female covering approximately 80% of her scalp. Partial sampling of the lesion revealed focal blue nevus-like features at the microscopic level. We discuss issues related to blue nevus-like melanomas and highlight the unique clinical presentation of the current case.
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spelling pubmed-64887712019-05-07 Unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: A case report George, Sheenagh JK Green, Peter Walsh, Noreen MG SAGE Open Med Case Rep JCMS Case Report We present an unusual case of melanoma in a 76-year-old female covering approximately 80% of her scalp. Partial sampling of the lesion revealed focal blue nevus-like features at the microscopic level. We discuss issues related to blue nevus-like melanomas and highlight the unique clinical presentation of the current case. SAGE Publications 2019-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6488771/ /pubmed/31065360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19847063 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: A case report
title Unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: A case report
title_full Unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: A case report
title_fullStr Unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: A case report
title_short Unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: A case report
title_sort unusual melanoma of the scalp with blue nevus-like features and local metastasis: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488771/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19847063
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