The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis
Melanoma is among the most aggressive tumors, with different histological patterns of presentation ranging from the usual and easily diagnosable pictures to complex patterns of difficult diagnostic interpretation. Here, we present three cases of a very rare melanoma variant described as “carcinoid-l...
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| author | Gerardo Cazzato Anna Colagrande Antonietta Cimmino Aurora Demarco Lucia Lospalluti Francesca Arezzo Leonardo Resta Giuseppe Ingravallo |
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| description | Melanoma is among the most aggressive tumors, with different histological patterns of presentation ranging from the usual and easily diagnosable pictures to complex patterns of difficult diagnostic interpretation. Here, we present three cases of a very rare melanoma variant described as “carcinoid-like” and “paraganglioma-like” in the literature, and a brief review of the current literature of the very few cases described to date. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a730e0aee2214246a038b73d52cbadb12023-11-21T19:38:28ZengMDPI AGDermatopathology2296-35292021-05-018213013410.3390/dermatopathology8020019The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential DiagnosisGerardo Cazzato0Anna Colagrande1Antonietta Cimmino2Aurora Demarco3Lucia Lospalluti4Francesca Arezzo5Leonardo Resta6Giuseppe Ingravallo7Section of Pathology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70124 Bari, ItalySection of Pathology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70124 Bari, ItalySection of Pathology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70124 Bari, ItalySection of Dermatology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70124 Bari, ItalySection of Dermatology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70124 Bari, ItalySection of Gynecologic and Obstetrics Clinic, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, ItalySection of Pathology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70124 Bari, ItalySection of Pathology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70124 Bari, ItalyMelanoma is among the most aggressive tumors, with different histological patterns of presentation ranging from the usual and easily diagnosable pictures to complex patterns of difficult diagnostic interpretation. Here, we present three cases of a very rare melanoma variant described as “carcinoid-like” and “paraganglioma-like” in the literature, and a brief review of the current literature of the very few cases described to date.https://www.mdpi.com/2296-3529/8/2/19melanomapatterncarcinoid-likeparaganglioma-like |
| spellingShingle | Gerardo Cazzato Anna Colagrande Antonietta Cimmino Aurora Demarco Lucia Lospalluti Francesca Arezzo Leonardo Resta Giuseppe Ingravallo The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis Dermatopathology melanoma pattern carcinoid-like paraganglioma-like |
| title | The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis |
| title_full | The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis |
| title_fullStr | The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis |
| title_short | The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis |
| title_sort | great mime three cases of melanoma with carcinoid like and paraganglioma like pattern with emphasis on differential diagnosis |
| topic | melanoma pattern carcinoid-like paraganglioma-like |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2296-3529/8/2/19 |
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