title: Myxoid melanoma of the skin.
abstract: We report a case of cutaneous myxoid melanoma in a 61-year-old man. Histologically, the tumor, which showed an adjacent intraepidermal proliferation of atypical melanocytes, was composed of spindle-shaped and epithelioid cells with atypical nuclei, arranged in lobules and embedded in a prominent myxoid stroma. Primary cutaneous myxoid melanoma is rare: we found only one other example in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pathological Anatomy and Histology, University of Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Urso
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Giannotti
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bondi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure