A 71-Year-Old Woman with a Pigmented Nail Bed, which Persisted after Trauma

Abstract

A 71-year-old woman presented in our out-patients department with pigmentation of the nail bed of her left large toe, which had persisted after a trauma two years earlier. An inconclusive biopsy showed melanoma in situ. The lesion was excised with amputation of the big toe at the IP-joint and closed primarily. The pathological diagnosis was melanoma in situ and lentigo maligna. The lesion had been radically excised.

Key Words:

• Subungual melanoma
• melanoma
• melanoma in situ
• lentigo maligna
• nail bed pigmentation
• amputation.

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P.G. Juten

P. G. Juten, M.D. St.-Antonius Hospital Kleve Klinik für Unfall-, Hand-und Wiederherstellungschirurgie Albersallee 5–7 47533 Kleve, Deutschland E-mail: [email protected]