Multiple primary melanomas
Multiple primary melanomas
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DOI:
10.1067/mjd.2001.110878
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发表时间:
2001-01-01
影响因子:
13.8
通讯作者:
Bergman, W
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作者:
Stam-Posthuma, JJ;van Duinen, C;Bergman, W
Background: Patients with clinically diagnosed dysplastic nevi or 3 family history of melanoma with or without histologically diagnosed dysplastic nevi seem to be at higher risk For the development of multiple melanomas.Objective: Our purpose was to determine which factors increased the risk for the development of subsequent melanomas.Methods: This was a retrospective study in 56 patients with 157 melanomas.Results: Early age at onset (58.9%), clinically diagnosed dysplastic nevi (82.0%), a histologically diagnosed dysplastic nevus (64%), family history of clinically diagnosed dysplastic nevi (70.8%) or melanoma (64.7%) and a histologically diagnosed dysplastic nevus in combination with a family history of melanoma (48%) were found in a high percentage of patients. The mean age at diagnosis was 38.2 years. The mean interval between the first and second melanoma was 34.3 months. Of the second melanomas, 76.8% developed in a different anatomic region from the first melanomas. The mean tumor thickness (Breslow) decreased from 1.11 mm for the first melanomas to 0.90 mm for the second melanomas.Conclusion: The results suggest that genetic factors might he involved in a certain subset of patients in whom melanomas develop early and successively.