Melanoma, malignant, mucosal melanoma. coincidental finding of a nodular mucosal melanoma in a 53-year-old female patient. The reddish-brown tumor (marisk at 8-10 o'clock), which sits broadly at the base between 11 and 3 o'clock, was previously not recognized as a hemorrhoidal node.
melanoma, malignant, mucosal melanoma. detail enlargement: Conjunctiva bulbi re. eye with brownish pigmentation and approx. hazelnut-sized brown-black tumor. since one year increasing thickness and size. first manifestation 8-10 years ago as small brown macula.
Melanoma, malignant, mucosal melanoma. histological correlate of the clinically imaged tumor. dense conglomerate of very irregularly pigmented, spindle-shaped cell formations that focally penetrate the surface epithelium.
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