Primary Dermal Melanoma
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- Iwata Hiroaki
- National Cancer Center, Department of Dermatology
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- Yamazaki Naoya
- National Cancer Center, Department of Dermatology
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- Yamamoto Akifumi
- National Cancer Center, Department of Dermatology
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- Takahashi Akira
- National Cancer Center, Department of Dermatology
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- Nishizawa Aya
- National Cancer Center, Department of Dermatology
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- Primary dermal melanomaと考えられた2例
- Primary dermal melanoma ト カンガエラレタ 2レイ
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Abstract
The term “primary dermal melanoma” has been used to describe a solitary melanoma lesion confined to the dermal and/or subcutaneous tissue in primary unknown melanoma cases. There are no significant histopathological differences between primary dermal melanoma and cutaneous metastasis of melanoma. The most important distinction to be made is with metastatic melanoma, because the prognoses for stage IV melanoma and primary dermal melanoma are vastly different. In some reports, the five-year survival rate was reported to be over 80%. We report 2 cases of primary dermal melanoma. Both cases, at first, were diagnosed as cutaneous metastasis of melanoma histopathologically. However we could not detect any primary lesion. One case is disease-free over 4 years after the operation. The other case only recently underwent surgery, so it is too early to be definitely diagnosed as primary dermal melanoma.
Journal
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- The Japanese Journal of Dermatology
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The Japanese Journal of Dermatology 116 (7), 1069-1073, 2006
Japanese Dermatological Association
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282680716861184
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- NII Article ID
- 130004714788
- 10018072886
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- NII Book ID
- AN00196602
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- ISSN
- 13468146
- 0021499X
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- NDL BIB ID
- 7957102
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed