Mucosal melanoma

The mucosal melanoma (or mucosal melanoma) is a special form of melanoma . Compared to melanoma, they have a significantly worse prognosis. Mucosal melanomas occur in the head and neck area (55%), anorectal (24%), vulvovaginal (18%) and urinary tract (3%). Due to their histopathological and clinical characteristics, melanomas of the vulva and vagina are often counted as a separate subtype. The prognosis for vulvovaginal melanoma is poor and has not improved over the past few decades.

Individual evidence

^ William D. James & Timothy G. Berger: Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology . Saunders Elsevier, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6 , pp. 696 .
↑ Ronald P. Rapini, Jean L. Bolognia, Joseph L. Jorizzo: The mucosal melanoma . In: Dermatology . Mosby, St. Louis 2007, ISBN 978-1-4160-2999-1 .
↑ Chang AE, Karnell LH, Menck HR: The National Cancer Data Base report on cutaneous and noncutaneous melanoma: a summary of 84,836 cases from the past decade. The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and the American Cancer Society . In: Cancer . 83, No. 8, October 1998, pp. 1664-78. doi : 10.1002 / (sici) 1097-0142 (19981015) 83: 8 <1664 :: aid-cncr23> 3.0.co; 2-g . PMID 9781962 .
^ Wohlmuth C, Wohlmuth-Wieser I: Vulvar malignancies: an interdisciplinary perspective . In: J Dtsch Dermatol Ges . 17, No. 12, December 2019, pp. 1257-1276. doi : 10.1111 / ddg.13995 . PMID 31829526 .
↑ Wohlmuth C, Wohlmuth-Wieser I, May T, Vicus D, Gien LT, Laframboise S: Malignant Melanoma of the Vulva and Vagina: A US Population-Based Study of 1863 Patients . In: American Journal of Clinical Dermatology . November 2019. doi : 10.1007 / s40257-019-00487-x . PMID 31784896 .

[Andrews-1] William D. James & Timothy G. Berger: Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology . Saunders Elsevier, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6 , pp. 696 .

[Bolognia-2] Ronald P. Rapini, Jean L. Bolognia, Joseph L. Jorizzo: The mucosal melanoma . In: Dermatology . Mosby, St. Louis 2007, ISBN 978-1-4160-2999-1 .

[3] Chang AE, Karnell LH, Menck HR: The National Cancer Data Base report on cutaneous and noncutaneous melanoma: a summary of 84,836 cases from the past decade. The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and the American Cancer Society . In: Cancer . 83, No. 8, October 1998, pp. 1664-78. doi : 10.1002 / (sici) 1097-0142 (19981015) 83: 8 <1664 :: aid-cncr23> 3.0.co; 2-g . PMID 9781962 .

[4] Wohlmuth C, Wohlmuth-Wieser I: Vulvar malignancies: an interdisciplinary perspective . In: J Dtsch Dermatol Ges . 17, No. 12, December 2019, pp. 1257-1276. doi : 10.1111 / ddg.13995 . PMID 31829526 .

[5] Wohlmuth C, Wohlmuth-Wieser I, May T, Vicus D, Gien LT, Laframboise S: Malignant Melanoma of the Vulva and Vagina: A US Population-Based Study of 1863 Patients . In: American Journal of Clinical Dermatology . November 2019. doi : 10.1007 / s40257-019-00487-x . PMID 31784896 .