Affiliation:
1. N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Centre of Oncology, Ministry of Health of Russia
Abstract
Diagnosis of skin melanoma (SM) in children is a complex clinical and morphoimmunological problem. The rare occurrence, difficult interpretation of histological and immunohistochemical picture explain the error rate in the diagnosis of SM reaching 28.8 %. This article presents a clinical case of false-positive diagnosis of SM. As a result of a detailed assessment of the anamnesis, examination, revision of histological preparations and conducting an immunohistochemical study in the reference center, the diagnosis of SM was excluded.
Subject
Oncology,Hematology,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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