Melanomas With Rhabdomyosarcomatous Differentiation: Two Further Cases of a Rare Pathologic Pitfall.
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Department of Histopathology, The Christie Hospital, Manchester, UKIssue Date
2014-04-29
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We describe 2 new cases of malignant melanoma with divergent rhabdomyoblastic differentiation occurring in adult patients. The patients were women aged 67 and 51 years with primary cutaneous and uterine cervical melanoma, respectively. Rhabdomyoblastic differentiation in melanoma is very rare in adult patients, and to our knowledge, only 7 such cases have been described in the world literature, of which only 4 have conclusive documentation of the presence of rhabdomyoblastic differentiation. We present the fifth and sixth cases of adult melanomas with conclusive divergent rhabdomyoblastic differentiation, including the first noncutaneous (cervical) case; we also review the literature and highlight the potential for underrecognition of this phenomenon.Citation
Melanomas With Rhabdomyosarcomatous Differentiation: Two Further Cases of a Rare Pathologic Pitfall. 2014: Int. J. Surg. Pathol.Journal
International Journal of Surgical PathologyDOI
10.1177/1066896914531817PubMed ID
24788528ISSN
1940-2465ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/1066896914531817
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