Very Rare Amelanotic Lentigo Maligna Melanoma with Skull Roof Invasion
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Very Rare Amelanotic Lentigo Maligna Melanoma with Skull Roof Invasion
BACKGROUND Lentigo malignant melanoma is a melanoma subtype of chronic sun-damaged skin in elderly Caucasians. Amelanotic variants of lentigo malignant are extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION This is a case report of an 80-year-old male patient who presented with a non-pigmented exophytic tumour of his bald head. After complete surgical excision under the suspicion of squamous cell carcinoma, t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1857-9655
DOI: 10.3889/oamjms.2017.113