[Melanoma and pregnancy].
In spite of being a rare form of neoplasia, melanoma is the ones which occur most frequently in pregnancy. Pregnancy does not seem to aggravate the prognosis. However, the authors present the case of a woman suffering from melanoma, in which the intercurrence of pregnancy led to the development of the disease. After 32 weeks of pregnancy a living foetus was born without any symptoms of the disease, thus proving the low incidence of foetal metastatic lesions.
Duarte
A
A
Serviço de Obstetricia e Ginecologia, Centro Hospitalar de Gaia.
Santos
P
P
Ramalho
G
G
Cunha
E
E
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000601:surgery; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome
Melanoma e gravidez.