| Autor: |
Malec, Elisabeth, Lagerlöf, Bengt |
| Zdroj: |
Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery; 1977, Vol. 11 Issue: 2 p125-129, 5p |
| Abstrakt: |
A clinical follow-up and histopathological re-examination of 26 cases originally diagnosed as malignant melanoma in children under 14 years of age registered in the Swedish Cancer Registry during 1959-1971 has been undertaken. Only one met current criteria of a malignant melanoma. This tumour occurred in a giant naevus in a 3-year-old girl, who died with widespread metastatic melanoma within a year. The other cases were reclassified as melanocytoma of Spitz, cellular blue naevus, compound naevus and neurofibroma. The results confirm that malignant melanoma is a rare tumour in prepubertal children. The risk for histophatological overdiagnosis is much higher in children (95%), than in adults (4%). |
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