Metastatic Malignant Melanoma With Occult Primary Presenting as Breast Mass: A Case Report and Literature Review

Skin malignant melanoma (MM) is a malignant neoplasm that arises from the melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis. It is considered an aggressive neoplasm and is responsible for 75% of skin cancer deaths. Here we present a case of a young female patient who presented with a left breast mass...

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Autores principales: Harsten, Rebecca M, Fisher, Rebecca, Al-Sanjari, Nazar, Idaewor, Philip, Saad Abdalla Al-Zawi, Abdalla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34327106
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15886
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author Harsten, Rebecca M
Fisher, Rebecca
Al-Sanjari, Nazar
Idaewor, Philip
Saad Abdalla Al-Zawi, Abdalla
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description Skin malignant melanoma (MM) is a malignant neoplasm that arises from the melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis. It is considered an aggressive neoplasm and is responsible for 75% of skin cancer deaths. Here we present a case of a young female patient who presented with a left breast mass and investigations revealed multiple disease foci from an occult MM.
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spelling pubmed-83041962021-07-28 Metastatic Malignant Melanoma With Occult Primary Presenting as Breast Mass: A Case Report and Literature Review Harsten, Rebecca M Fisher, Rebecca Al-Sanjari, Nazar Idaewor, Philip Saad Abdalla Al-Zawi, Abdalla Cureus Dermatology Skin malignant melanoma (MM) is a malignant neoplasm that arises from the melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis. It is considered an aggressive neoplasm and is responsible for 75% of skin cancer deaths. Here we present a case of a young female patient who presented with a left breast mass and investigations revealed multiple disease foci from an occult MM. Cureus 2021-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8304196/ /pubmed/34327106 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15886 Text en Copyright © 2021, Harsten et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Metastatic Malignant Melanoma With Occult Primary Presenting as Breast Mass: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Metastatic Malignant Melanoma With Occult Primary Presenting as Breast Mass: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Metastatic Malignant Melanoma With Occult Primary Presenting as Breast Mass: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Metastatic Malignant Melanoma With Occult Primary Presenting as Breast Mass: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Malignant Melanoma With Occult Primary Presenting as Breast Mass: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Metastatic Malignant Melanoma With Occult Primary Presenting as Breast Mass: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort metastatic malignant melanoma with occult primary presenting as breast mass: a case report and literature review
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8304196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34327106
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15886
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