Simultaneous upper limb melanoma and breast cancer related lymphedema management

Dimitrios Dionyssiou; Athanasios Papas; Avra Drougou; Athanasios Tsamaldoupis; Georgios Arsos; Efterpi Demiri

doi:10.1080/23320885.2023.2182308

Simultaneous upper limb melanoma and breast cancer related lymphedema management

Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2023 Feb 24;10(1):2182308. doi: 10.1080/23320885.2023.2182308. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Dimitrios Dionyssiou¹, Athanasios Papas¹, Avra Drougou¹, Athanasios Tsamaldoupis², Georgios Arsos^{3

4}, Efterpi Demiri¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. GH Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece.
² Dermatologist, Private Sector, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁴ GH Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Abstract

We present a rare case of a patient with malignant melanoma in the lymphedematous arm associated with breast cancer and its lymphedema management. Histology of previous lymphadenectomy and results of current lymphangiographies suggested the need for SLN biopsy, and simultaneously perform of distal LVAs to manage lymphedema.

Keywords: LVA; Melanoma; breast cancer related lymphedema; sentinel lymph node biopsy.

Publication types

Case Reports