The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis

Gerardo Cazzato; Anna Colagrande; Antonietta Cimmino; Aurora Demarco; Lucia Lospalluti; Francesca Arezzo; Leonardo Resta; Giuseppe Ingravallo

doi:10.3390/dermatopathology8020019

The Great Mime: Three Cases of Melanoma with Carcinoid-Like and Paraganglioma-Like Pattern with Emphasis on Differential Diagnosis

Dermatopathology (Basel). 2021 May 13;8(2):130-134. doi: 10.3390/dermatopathology8020019.

Authors

Gerardo Cazzato¹, Anna Colagrande¹, Antonietta Cimmino¹, Aurora Demarco², Lucia Lospalluti², Francesca Arezzo³, Leonardo Resta¹, Giuseppe Ingravallo¹

Affiliations

¹ Section of Pathology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (DETO), University of Bari 'Aldo Moro', 70124 Bari, Italy.
² Section of Dermatology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari 'Aldo Moro', 70124 Bari, Italy.
³ Section of Gynecologic and Obstetrics Clinic, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari 'Aldo Moro', 70121 Bari, Italy.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: carcinoid-like; melanoma; paraganglioma-like; pattern.

Publication types

Case Reports