TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiple primary melanoma in pregnancy
T2 - a case report
AU - Pennington, David G.
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - A case is reported of three primary superficial spreading melanomas presenting in one patient in the space of 12 months. On each occasion the patient was pregnant at the time of definitive treatment. Local excision was performed for each tumour on the basis that this is appropriate for melanomas of less than 0.76 mm in depth (Breslow, 1975). The second primary had been biopsied between pregnancies and reported as benign. It is difficult to escape the inference that, in this patient, initiation of malignant transformation during pregnancy was not coincidental.
AB - A case is reported of three primary superficial spreading melanomas presenting in one patient in the space of 12 months. On each occasion the patient was pregnant at the time of definitive treatment. Local excision was performed for each tumour on the basis that this is appropriate for melanomas of less than 0.76 mm in depth (Breslow, 1975). The second primary had been biopsied between pregnancies and reported as benign. It is difficult to escape the inference that, in this patient, initiation of malignant transformation during pregnancy was not coincidental.
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U2 - 10.1016/0007-1226(83)90104-2
DO - 10.1016/0007-1226(83)90104-2
M3 - Article
VL - 36
SP - 260
EP - 261
JO - British Journal of Plastic Surgery
JF - British Journal of Plastic Surgery
SN - 0007-1226
IS - 2
ER -