Vigilance to misleading information is required to avoid delayed diagnosis: Case series of acral melanomas.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Melanoma is considered a rare cancer among Asians with a wide range of mucocutaneous manifestations. Failure to recognize a lesion as melanoma at first presentation might delay surgery aimed at complete resection. Acral melanoma has been related with the highest rate of misdiagnosis (~30%) causing further delayed diagnosis. Reliability of patient' history taking in melanoma has not yet been systematically reported.

Presented cases

Two patients visited our oncology clinic with pigmented lesions in their soles. A 66-year-old man disclosed it appeared since a year ago after accidently hitting a stone while farming. Physical examination showed a black-brown irregular 100 × 80 mm lesion covering the distal third of the right sole with ulceration in the central lesion

SUBMITTER: Anwar SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8093894 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature