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A case of malignant melanoma arising on the hyperkeratotic little finger of a 46-year-old patient with palmoplantar keratoderma is reported. A pigmented lesion had been present since childhood, over a period of two years it became larger and darker and had occasionally bled over the past two months. Histopathologic investigation revealed hyperkeratosis, hypergranulosis, and acanthosis on the left palm and malignant melanoma on the macule of the left little finger.
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Received: 18 March 1998 / Accepted: 22 July 1998
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Aygit, A., Bayçin, H. & Demiralay, A. Malignant melanoma in association with palmoplantar keratoderma. E J Plastic Surg 22, 49–50 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002380050145
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002380050145