Transplantable Malignant Melanoma in LT.B6 Congenic Mice Resembling Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma in Humans

Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma in a Child: Unusual Clinical Presentation

369 intravenous adenosine is known to adversely cause facial flushing, headache, palpitations, light headedness, dizziness, blurring of vision and nausea, the local pain or discomfort and local flushing are not described. These adverse events were probably caused by intra-arterial injection of adenosine in the given case. In a clinical trial done by Costa et al [6] , adenosine injection in the ...

Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma: immunohistochemical profiles of tumour-infiltrating histiocytes.

Pigmented Bowens disease mimicking malignant Melanoma: A case report

Pigmented Bowens disease is an in situ squamous cell carcinoma, which is seldom reported in white patients. Herein we report a 20-year-old woman with type III skin, who had this lesion on the fourth finger of her right hand, similar to superficial malignant melanoma, clinically. Although dermoscopic evaluation could be helpful, correct diagnosis of non-melanotic origin is done by histological e...

Case Report of a Large Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma With Suspected Lymph Node Metastases

Objective: Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma was proposed by Zembowicz et al in 2004 including lesions previously diagnosed as human animal-type melanoma and epithelioid blue nevus. Tumors are composed of epithelioid and spindled melanocytes with heavy pigmentation. Methods: We report a case of pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma in 47-year-old Asian woman. The tumor sized 10 × 6 × 2 cm on the ...

A large pigmented lesion mimicking malignant melanoma.

An 88-year-old woman was admitted with a huge bilateral pulmonary embolism and acute renal failure. On physical examination, a well-defined irregularly pigmented plaque 20 · 40 mm with black, brown and pink hues and an irregular border was noticed over the umbilicus (Fig. 1). A clinical diagnosis of malignant melanoma (MM) was suggested, and surgical excision planned. However, the patient’s pro...