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PLANTAR MALIGNANT MELANOMA
Author(s) -
Hosokawa Michiko,
Kato Taizo,
Seiji Makoto,
Abe Rikiya
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
the journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1346-8138
pISSN - 0385-2407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1980.tb01957.x
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , heel , lesion , dermatology , metastasis , surgery , cancer , anatomy , cancer research
Among 51 cases of malignant melanoma seen at the Department of Dermatology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, from 1966 to 1978, 16 cases had had the primary lesion on the sole. The average age of these 16 cases was 63 and the sex ratio (M:F) was 11:5. The common sites of involvement on the sole were the heel (in 9 cases) and the toes and metatarsal region (in 5 cases). In 14 cases the lesions arose on the right sole; furthermore, 6 cases had had histories of trauma before or after the development of tumor and 7 cases had received insufficient excisions of their lesions, all of which showed a recurrence and/or lymph node metastasis within a year. These data suggest that traumatic stimulation may have some effect up on the pathogenesis of plantar melanoma. The clinicopathological features of plantar malignant melanoma in Japan are also described.