Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb

We present a woman who was referred to our plastic surgery unit with a suspected squamous cell carcinoma following a 3-year history of an enlarging mass on her thigh. Surprisingly, histopathological assessment confirmed the diagnosis of nodular malignant melanoma measuring 77×77×54 mm with a Breslow...

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Autores principales: Faderani, Ryan, Ali, Stephen R, Nijran, Amit, Dobbs, Thomas D, Karoo, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9487200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36148142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac409
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description We present a woman who was referred to our plastic surgery unit with a suspected squamous cell carcinoma following a 3-year history of an enlarging mass on her thigh. Surprisingly, histopathological assessment confirmed the diagnosis of nodular malignant melanoma measuring 77×77×54 mm with a Breslow thickness of 52 mm, making it the largest recorded lower limb primary cutaneous malignant melanoma in the UK.
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spelling pubmed-94872002022-09-21 Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb Faderani, Ryan Ali, Stephen R Nijran, Amit Dobbs, Thomas D Karoo, Richard J Surg Case Rep Case Report We present a woman who was referred to our plastic surgery unit with a suspected squamous cell carcinoma following a 3-year history of an enlarging mass on her thigh. Surprisingly, histopathological assessment confirmed the diagnosis of nodular malignant melanoma measuring 77×77×54 mm with a Breslow thickness of 52 mm, making it the largest recorded lower limb primary cutaneous malignant melanoma in the UK. Oxford University Press 2022-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9487200/ /pubmed/36148142 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac409 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb
title_full Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb
title_fullStr Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb
title_short Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb
title_sort diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb
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