Pigmented seborrheic keratoses of the vulva clinically mimicking a malignant melanoma: A clinical, dermoscopic-pathologic case study

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-19

  De Giorgi, V ^a   Massi, D ^a   Salvini, C ^a   Mannone, F ^a   Carli, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMEDO; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MELANOMA; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENTED SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; VULVA DISEASE;

AGED; DERMATOLOGY; DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, SEBORRHEIC; MELANOMA; VULVAR DISEASES; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 13244267010     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2004.01594.x     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Braun RP, Rabinovitz HS, Krischer J et al. Dermoscopy of pigmented seborrheic keratosis - a morphological study. Arch Dermatol 2002; 138: 1556-60.
2. Curtin JP, Morrow CP. Melanoma of the female genital tract. In: Coppleson, M, ed. Gynecologic Oncology. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone 1992, 1052-68.
3. Carli P, De Giorgi V, Cattaneo A, Giannotti B. Mucosal melanosis clinically mimicking malignant melanoma: Non invasive analysis by epiluminescence microscopy. Eur J Dermatol 1996; 6: 434-6.
4. Mannone F, De Giorgi V, Cattaneo A et al. Dermoscopical features of mucosal melanosis. Dermatol Surg 2004, in press.
5. Stolz W, Braun-Falco O, Bilek P, Landthaler M. Farbatlas der Dermatoskopie. Berlin: Blackwell Wissenschaft, 1993.
6. Dunton CJ, Berd D. Vulvar melanoma, biologically different from other cutaneous melanomas. Lancet 1999; 354: 2013-4.
7. Lenane P, Keane CO, Connell BO et al. Genital melanotic macules: clinical, histologic, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features. J Am Acad Dermatol 2000; 42: 640-4.