Sequential Acral Lentiginous Melanomas of the Foot

• Main Authors: Jiro Uehara (Author), Yasuhiro Ito (Author), Ichiro Takahashi (Author), Masaru Honma (Author), Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto (Author), Shinobu Matsuo (Author), Hajime Iizuka (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A 64-year-old Japanese woman had a lightly brown-blackish pigmented macule (1.2 cm in diameter) on the left sole of her foot. She received surgical excision following a diagnosis of acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM), which was confirmed histopathologically. One month after the operation, a second mel...