Giant inguinal melanoma treated with complex oncological and reconstructive surgery: A case report.

ABSTRACT: A 53-year-old woman came to our attention with a giant inguinal mass that was growing in the last 5 months, so she underwent a total body CT-scan that showed a 25 × 16 × 21cm mass of the right inguinal region which was compressing the femoral vessels and infiltrated the omolateral rectum muscle, pulmonary embolism and thrombosis of the right femoral vein. We performed a tru-cut biopsy that was consistent with an undifferentiated round-cell sarcoma. So, we performed a wide excision of the mass and a reconstruction with a pedunculated muscular flap of the tensor muscle of the fasciae late, a graft of omologous fasciae late and a graft of the great saphena vein onto the superficial femoral artery. The histological examination of the specimen demonstrated instead an "atypical amelanotic sar

SUBMITTER: Rastrelli M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9422357 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature