J Korean Breast Cancer Soc.
2003 Mar;6(1):35-38. 10.4048/jkbcs.2003.6.1.35.
A Case of Malignant Melanoma Presenting as a Breast Mass
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- 1Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Chunan, Korea. sykim@schch.co.kr
- 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Chunan, Korea.
- 3Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Chunan, Korea.
- KMID: 1906257
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.4048/jkbcs.2003.6.1.35
Abstract
- Malignant melanomas arising in the skin, buccal mucous membranes. and retina are encountered frequently. A malignant melanoma characteristically disseminates widely but infrequently metastasizes to the breast, and primary melanoma of the breast is even rarer. Primary melanomas can arise in the glandular tissue of the breast. We report a case of malignant melanoma either primary in the breast or metastatic from an unknown primary that presented initially as a left breast mass without a detectable cutaneous lesion.
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