Abstract
The development of melanoma metastasis to the palatine tonsil is a very rare event, generally associated with advanced-stage disease and poor prognosis. A 29-year-old man presented with a melanoma metastasis to the right palatine tonsil 6 months after the surgical excision of an ulcerated nodular melanoma (tumor thickness 1.8 mm, Clark level IV) on the left shoulder. A metastatic sentinel lymph node had been removed from the left axilla, and a subsequent complete lymph node dissection had disclosed no further metastatic lymph nodes. Although staging tests had revealed multiple visceral metastases, a palliative tonsillectomy was performed. The patient died of metastases 5 months later. The case presentation suggests that careful examination of the head and neck should be part of the routine follow-up visit in all melanoma patients.
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