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Year : 2008 | Volume
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Giant hanging melanoma of the eyelid skin
Radha R Pai1, Hema Kini1, Sai Giridhar Kamath2, Suneet Kumar1
1 Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India 2 Department of Ophthalmology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India
Correspondence Address:
Radha R Pai Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, P. O. Box 53, Mangalore - 575 001, Karnataka India
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.40367
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Cutaneous melanoma of the eyelid is a rare entity. We present a 53-year-old male who had a nevus on the left upper eyelid skin since childhood, which transformed into a huge ulcerated hanging mass in the same region. Excision of the mass was done and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of nodular malignant melanoma. A small preauricular lymph node showed metastatic melanoma on fine needle aspiration cytology. |
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