Author:
Marshall Jurga,Bhave Priya,Bruza-Augatis Mirela,Fernandez Christine
Abstract
ABSTRACT
About 85,000 melanomas are diagnosed every year in the United States, but only about 3.2% are diagnosed without a primary site. This article describes a patient who presented with two rapidly growing axillary masses and was found to have metastatic melanoma of the lymph nodes with no known primary site. Melanoma of unknown primary (MUP) site is staged either III or IV level. Management is determined in the same manner as stage-matched melanoma of known primary site.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
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