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ArticleCureus2023

A Disguising Fast-Growing Metachronous Melanoma and COVID-19.

Alina Avram, Lucian G Scurtu, Mariana Costache, Olga Simionescu

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alina AvramDepartment of Dermatology I, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, ROU.
Lucian G ScurtuDepartment of Dermatology I, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, ROU.
Mariana CostacheDepartment of Pathology, Bucharest University Emergency Hospital, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, ROU.
Olga SimionescuDepartment of Dermatology I, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, ROU.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An unusual case of a 52-year-old female with two metachronous melanomas is presented. An atypical fast-growing nodular melanoma appeared 18 months after the complete excision of an in situ melanoma and one month afterward a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Intra-nodal melanocytic proliferations were identified during lymph node assessment, raising important diagnostic and prognostic concerns. No melanoma susceptibility genes were found. This case report raises the question about the COVID-19 immunosuppression effect on the tumor microenvironment and the oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2. It also highlights the importance of clinical follow-up in melanoma patients, which was significantly delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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covid-19malignant melanomamultiple melanomasnodular melanomasars-cov-2skin cancer

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PMID37065319
PMCPMC10101186

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