• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Coexisting Tattoo Pigment and Metastatic Melanoma in the Same Sentinel Lymph Node
  • Contributor: Jaigirdar, Adnan A.; Yeh, Michael W.; Sharifi, Emile; Browne, L. Walden; Leong, Stanley P.L.
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2009
  • Published in: Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 13 (2009) 6, Seite 321-325
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2310/7750.2009.08056
  • ISSN: 1203-4754; 1615-7109
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  • Description: Background:The principle of sentinel lymph node states that metastatic melanoma spreads in a predictable sequential fashion from the primary site to the regional lymph node basin.Objective and Conclusion:Reports show that melanoma and tattoo pigment can be in the same regional lymph node basin on gross evaluation. We present two cases of melanoma arising within the setting of a tattoo where the sentinel lymph node contained both pigmented histiocytes and metastatic melanoma on gross inspection and histopathology.