title: Digital volar amelanotic malignant melanoma in a child.
abstract: Malignant melanoma in childhood is rare. An unusual case of amelanotic melanoma of the volar thumb in a fourteen-year-old boy which posed problems of recognition and management is presented.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013933:Thumb