Translational Medicine
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-1025
+44 1223 790975
ISSN: 2161-1025
+44 1223 790975
Wilson Onuigbo
University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital,
Enugu 40000
Nigeria
Case Report
Presentation of regressed pedal melanoma as a groin mass
Author(s): Wilson Onuigbo, Christian Ezidiegwu and Aloysius AghajiWilson Onuigbo, Christian Ezidiegwu and Aloysius Aghaji
Malignant melanoma is well known for its unusual manifestations. Now, it has been proposed in the UK that the establishment of a histopathology data pool is useful in epidemiological analysis. Therefore, this paper illustrates how such a pool subsisting in a developing community could throw light on the presentation in the groin of the melanoma patient. It had arisen in the foot. Such case reports are necessary, especially in the developing communities. For example, a wedge from the abdominal wall of a 8-year-old girl led to the discovery for the first time of the human living Paragonimus uterobilateralis. .. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2161-1025.1000170