Article Menu

Export Article

More by Authors Links

Article Data

  • Views 193
  • Dowloads 112

Case Reports

Open Access

Melanocytic dysplasia and multiple melanoma of the vulva

  • G. Fabrizi1
  • G. F. Zannoni2
  • L. I. Lopez3
  • G. Massi2,*,

1Department of Dermatology, Italy

2Pathology,Catholic University Medical School, Rome, Italy

3Department of Gynaecology, Columbus Medical Centre, Rome, Italy

DOI: 10.12892/ejgo200204323 Vol.23,Issue 4,July 2002 pp.323-324

Published: 10 July 2002

*Corresponding Author(s): G. Massi E-mail:

PDF (3.99 MB)

Abstract

We report a case of a 24-year-old woman with multiple pigmented lesions on her vulva. Histologically the lesions showed a heterogeneous pattern: the majority consisted of melanoma in situ and invasive melanoma; in a few lesions a much less clear-cut picture was found with only melanocytic dysplasia of various degrees. Our case shows the relationship between anomalous melanocytic proliferation of the vulva and vulvar melanoma and underlines the necessity of a thorough check of all melanocytic vulvar lesions also in young patients.

Keywords

Vulvar multiple melanoma; Vulvar melanocytic dysplasia; Melanoma precursors

Cite and Share

G. Fabrizi,G. F. Zannoni,L. I. Lopez,G. Massi. Melanocytic dysplasia and multiple melanoma of the vulva. European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology. 2002. 23(4);323-324.

URL:

https://www.ejgo.net/articles/10.12892/ejgo200204323

References

[1] Bradgate M.G.,R ollason T. P.,M cconkey C. C. et al.: "Malignant melanoma of vulva: a clinico-pathological study of 50 women" Br. J. Obst et. Gynaecol., 1990, 97, 124.

[2] Tasseron E. W. K., Van der Esch E. P., Hart A. A. M. et al.: "A Chnicopathological Study of 30 melanomas of the vulva". Gynecol Oncol., 1992, 42, 170.

[3] Podczaski E.,A rthur A. B. D.,K aminsky P. et al.: "A patient with multiple malignant melanoma of the lower genital tract". Gynecol Oneal., 1990, 37, 422.

[4] Kerley S. W., Blute L. M., Keeney L. G.: "Multifocal malignant melanoma arising in vesicovaginal melanosis". Arch. Pathol. Lab Med., 1991, 115, 950.

[5] Ohashi K., Kasuga T., Tanaka N. et al.: "Malignant melanoma of the oral cavity: Heterogeneity of pathological and clinical features". Virchows Archiv. a Pathol. Anat., 1992, 420, 43.

Abstracted / indexed in

Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) Created as SCI in 1964, Science Citation Index Expanded now indexes over 9,500 of the world’s most impactful journals across 178 scientific disciplines. More than 53 million records and 1.18 billion cited references date back from 1900 to present.

Biological Abstracts Easily discover critical journal coverage of the life sciences with Biological Abstracts, produced by the Web of Science Group, with topics ranging from botany to microbiology to pharmacology. Including BIOSIS indexing and MeSH terms, specialized indexing in Biological Abstracts helps you to discover more accurate, context-sensitive results.

Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

JournalSeek Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 39226 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.

Current Contents - Clinical Medicine Current Contents - Clinical Medicine provides easy access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information and all other significant items in recently published issues from over 1,000 leading journals in clinical medicine.

BIOSIS Previews BIOSIS Previews is an English-language, bibliographic database service, with abstracts and citation indexing. It is part of Clarivate Analytics Web of Science suite. BIOSIS Previews indexes data from 1926 to the present.

Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition aims to evaluate a journal’s value from multiple perspectives including the journal impact factor, descriptive data about a journal’s open access content as well as contributing authors, and provide readers a transparent and publisher-neutral data & statistics information about the journal.

Submission Turnaround Time

Conferences

Top