Clinical Pathological Analysis of 86 Cases of Malignant Melanoma.
- VernacularTitle:恶性黑色素瘤86例临床病理分析
- Author:
Zhijun GUO
;
Meiyun HUANG
;
Ningxin XIAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Malignant melanoma;
Clinical pathology
- From:
Journal of Medical Research
2006;0(09):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To study the clinical pathological characters of malignant melanoma.Methods To analyze the clinical pathological materials of 86 cases of malignant melanoma.Results The original sites of 49 of the whole 86 cases locate at limbs,among those 26 cases at sole or heel.49 cases of them have melanotic nevus history,36 cases have trauma history.30 cases were diagnosed as carcinomatous change of ulcer before the surgical operation while 51 cases were diagnosed as other pathological diseases.Only 5 cases were diagnosed as malignant melanoma.The major histological type of the 86 cases is the epitheliod cell type,which made 50%(43 cases) of all the cases.61 cases(70.9%) of them has lymphnodes metastasis when the diagnosis was made.Conclusion Malignant melanoma most commonly located at limbs,especially at sole or heel.It's inclined to misdiagnose the disease and the disease is likely to metastasize before surgical operation.Final diagnosis should be confirmed by pathology examination.