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Giant lung metastasis of NRAS-mutant melanoma in a 24-year-old patient with a history of BRAF-mutant conventional melanoma harboring Spitzoid morphology: a case report.

Jiri VachtenheimRoman KodetOndrej FischerVitezslav KolekZuzana StrizovaAndrej OzaniakJan SimonekAlan StolzJiri PozniakJan KolarikMonika SvorcovaJiri VachtenheimRobert Lischke
Published in: Diagnostic pathology (2020)
Our patient was surgically treated at the age of 20 for AST and died four years later of metastatic NRAS-mutant melanoma most likely of different occult origin. Molecular characterization, as well as the close clinical follow-up should be always precisely performed in patients with uncertain skin lesions, such as AST.
Keyphrases
  • wild type
  • case report
  • skin cancer
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • small cell lung cancer
  • basal cell carcinoma
  • soft tissue