title: Malignant vulvar melanoma: colposcopic evaluation and review of the literature. A case report.
abstract: Because of the rarity of this kind of vulvar neoplasia, the diagnostic difficulties (clinical and histopathological) conditioning the therapeutic approach and the missing iconographical material, we report a case of vulvar melanoma seen at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of L'Aquila in April 2001, together with a review of the literature. Owing to radical vulvectomy and bilateral inguinal lymphadenectomy with the Byron three-incision approach the histological report was: epithelioid cell apigmented melanoma radially spreading (MMSS), a tumor-free margin of at least 1.7 cm with sufficient lympholitic infiltration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Di Stefano
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Calvisi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coppola
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Patacchiola
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Di Berardino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mascaretti
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003127:Colposcopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D014846:Vulvar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery