Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb

Ryan Faderani; Stephen R Ali; Amit Nijran; Thomas D Dobbs; Richard Karoo

doi:10.1093/jscr/rjac409

Diagnosing and managing a giant primary cutaneous malignant melanoma of the lower limb

J Surg Case Rep. 2022 Sep 19;2022(9):rjac409. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjac409. eCollection 2022 Sep.

Authors

Ryan Faderani^{1

2}, Stephen R Ali^{2

3}, Amit Nijran², Thomas D Dobbs^{2

3}, Richard Karoo²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University College London, UK.
² Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK.
³ Reconstructive Surgery and Regenerative Medicine Research Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, UK.

Abstract

We present a woman who was referred to our plastic surgery unit with a suspected squamous cell carcinoma following a 3-year history of an enlarging mass on her thigh. Surprisingly, histopathological assessment confirmed the diagnosis of nodular malignant melanoma measuring 77×77×54 mm with a Breslow thickness of 52 mm, making it the largest recorded lower limb primary cutaneous malignant melanoma in the UK.

Publication types

Case Reports