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Tumoral melanosis involving the sentinel lymph nodes: a case report.

Satzger I, Völker B, Kapp A, Gutzmer R

Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Hannover Medical University, Hannover, Germany. imke.grimmelmann@hamburg.de

Tumoral or nodular melanosis is characterized by a clinical lesion suspicious for malignant melanoma, the histopathological correlate is a nodular accumulation of melanophages in the dermis. We present a patient with nodular melanosis involving also the sentinel lymph nodes and discuss possible differential diagnoses as well as prognostic and therapeutic implications.

Published 16 February 2007 in J Cutan Pathol, 34(3): 284-6.
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