Abstract
To report a rare case of endometrial metastasis of cutaneous malignant melanoma, mimicked by histologically xanthomatous lesion. Only about ten other cases of endometrial metastasis of this malignancy have been reported previously. - Case report. - A 60 year old female. - Fractionated curettage and immunohistologically examination of the tissue. - Due to xanthomatous regressive changes of the metastatic tissue, difficulties in the histological confirmation as a metastasis of an unpigmented malignant melanoma occurred. But immunohistological staining showed positivity for S-100 and MART-1, as did the primary tumour. - If atypical bleeding in patients with known malignant melanoma of the skin occur endometrial metastasis should be excluded by gynaecologists.
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