Volume 25, Issue 2 pp. 126-128
Original Article

An Unusual Female Melanoma Patient with Late Metastases to Both Skin and Ovaries

Junji Nakano

Corresponding Author

Junji Nakano

Department of Dermatology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

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Takahiro Shimizu

Takahiro Shimizu

Department of Dermatology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

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Toru Hirota

Toru Hirota

Department of Dermatology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

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Masahiko Muto

Masahiko Muto

Department of Dermatology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

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First published: 09 April 2015
Citations: 5

Abstract

We presented an unusual case of cutaneous and bilateral ovarian metastases of malignant melanoma. There was no previously identifiable cutaneous or mucous lesion or teratoid element. Past history revealed that the patient had undergone removal of a blackish, elevated, irregular shaped tumor from the right arm eleven years previously. This lesion was considered to be the primary melanoma; therefore, it was thought to be very unusual as metastasis occurred in both the skin and ovaries after an eleven year disease-free interval.

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