title: Malignant melanoma of the vulva: a case report of distal recurrence in a patient with a superficially invasive primary lesion.
abstract: Malignant melanoma of the vulva is a rare but highly lethal disease traditionally treated by radical surgery. Recently, data has been presented suggesting that less aggressive surgical management for superficially invasive lesions results in low levels of local recurrence and metastatic disease. We present a patient with a Clark level II superficial spreading melanoma of the vulva that developed distal recurrence after wide local excision.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D014844:Vulva / Q000473:pathology; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery