title: Satellite implantation of the skin with malignant melanoma.
abstract: We report a 68-year-old female patient referred to the Surgical Department of Erbil Teaching Hospital university hospital, Erbil, Iraq with the diagnosis of malignant melanoma of the right upper thigh of one-year duration. Six months after primary lesion, she developed a satellite skin nodule of malignant melanoma over the unhealthy skin of the anterior abdominal wall in direct contact with the primary lesion. She also had a pendulous abdominal wall. This kind of spread of melanoma is unusual, and of non-classical route. We also discussed herein, similar cases admitted to our hospital.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Salahaddin, Erbil, Iraq. draqzangana@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Abdulqadir M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Zangana
mesh_terms: D034861:Abdominal Wall / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007493:Iraq; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013848:Thigh