Scrotum melanoma in a middle-age patient

• Main Authors: María Cristina Infante Carbonell, Rafael Manuel Neyra Barros, Lianne Jaén Infante
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas 2020-02-01
• Series: Medisan
• Subjects: melanoma; escroto; escisión del ganglio linfático; ingle; instituciones oncológicas.
• Online Access: http://medisan.sld.cu/index.php/san/article/view/2349

The case report of a 42 years, black skin patient is described, he attended the Peripheral Tumors Surgery Service in Conrado Benítez García Teaching Provincial Cancer Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, due to a hyperpigmented dark lesion in the left side of the scrotum, next to the raphe region, of approximately 4 mm and irregular borders that didn't elevate the skin or hurted. An excision of the lesion was carried out and the histological and pathological study revealed the existence of a melanoma, without ulceration or satelitosis, with radial growth, reason why there was a deep examination of the operated area in search of margins without affectation and the bilateral groin lymph nodes were dried up in a prophylactic way. Then chemotherapy and interferon injections were indicated. The patient maintained a favorable clinical course until a year and a half after the surgery.