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INVASIVE MELANOMA IN THE DONOR AND RECIPIENT SITES OF A HUTCHINSON'S FRECKLE TRANSPLANTED IN A SPLIT SKIN GRAFT
Author(s) -
McEwan Lena E.,
Buchanan Malcolm R. C.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1986.tb01826.x
Subject(s) - medicine , lentigo maligna melanoma , lentigo maligna , lentigo , melanoma , dermatology , superficial spreading melanoma , cancer research
An extraordinary case of synchronous development of invasive melanoma in the donor and recipient sites of a split skin graft is reported. The histological features suggest transplantation of a Hutchinson's melanotic freckle (lentigo maligna) at operation 10 years previously as the probable cause. The case is particularly interesting in that the invasive melanoma at both sites was at a similar stage despite a considerable difference in exposure to sunlight in the long postoperative period, perhaps discounting this factor as a precipitating cause of melanoma in Hutchinson's melanotic freckle (lentigo maligna melanoma).