title: [Penile malignant melanoma of the glans penis].
abstract: We present the case of a patient with malignant melanoma of the glans penis, which was found in a 53-year-old man with two pigmented lesions on penis. The patient was referred to partial surgical excision of the glans. The defect was covered with a full-thickness skin graft followed by left inguinal lymphadenectomy as second procedure by which a melanoma metastasis was found. The patient was well-being until two years after the surgery, when a metastatic melanoma was discovered in his right lung and in his liver. Early diagnosis is of paramount importance, as the prognosis becomes very poor if the tumour stage is advanced.
authors.affiliation: Dermatologisk Afdeling, Odense Universitetshospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense. rikke@wallentin.dk.
authors.forename: Rikke Søjborg
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Wallentin
authors.forename: Pia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sjøgren
mesh_terms: D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010412:Penile Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery