Juvenile malignant melanoma
Diagnosis almost certain
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A 14 year old girl detecteda lump in her right breast.
Breast ultrasound revealed an inhomogeneous leasion with mixed echogenicity .
Abdominal Ultrasound revealed the following findings:
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Breast cancer is extremlyextremely rare in adolescents and and breast lump lumps should raise the suspicion of metastasis. In theThis patient has a history aof malignant melanoma of the occipital scalp, which was removed three years ago and regional lymph node metastasis one year later. Current imaging work depicted numerous additional lesions scattered ofthroughout the entire body indicating metastic metastatic disease.
-<p>Breast cancer is extremly rare in adolescents and and breast lump should raise the suspicion of metastasis. In the patient history a malignant melanoma of the occipital scalp was removed three years ago and regional lymph node metastasis one year later. Current imaging work depicted numerous additional lesions scattered of the entire body indicating metastic disease.</p>- +<p>Breast cancer is extremely rare in adolescents and and breast lumps should raise the suspicion of metastasis. This patient has a history of malignant melanoma of the occipital scalp, which was removed three years ago and regional lymph node metastasis one year later. Current imaging depicted numerous additional lesions scattered throughout the entire body indicating metastatic disease.</p>
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- Paediatrics
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Initial sonography of the abdomenBreast ultrasound revealed an inhomogeneous lesion with mixed echogenicity.
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Bilateral lesions ofmasses of varying size in the brain.