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PRIMARY CUTANEOUS POLYPOIDAL NON‐STAGEABLE MELANOMAS IN QUEENSLAND * †
Author(s) -
Beardmore Graeme L.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1977.tb00813.x
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , curettage , dermatology , surgery , cancer research
S ummary Patients who develop a polypoidal melanoma which does not appear to invade the reticular dermis have a poor prognosis. Thirty three or 2‐1% of 1607 patients treated for melanoma, in Queensland (1963–1969) had a polypoidal non‐stageable melanoma. Twenty two patients were men. Four patients (12% of the thirty three) developed a second melanoma. Of the, thirty three patients, twenty one [sixteen men, five women) died from melanoma within jour years of the initial treatment. One man was lost to follow‐up after fourteen months. Another man died eleven years after treatment. The ten patients [jour men, six women) surviving have been followed for a mean time of 113 months [86—133) and were reported free of melanoma at their last check‐up. It is preferable to excise polypoidal skin lesions which look like atypical telangiectatic granulomas (pyogenic granulomas) or other unusual‐looking benign pedunculated skin tumours rather than to treat by curettage so that adequate material is available for histological examination.