melanomas in English

noun
1
a tumor of melanin-forming cells, typically a malignant tumor associated with skin cancer.
melanomas can appear anywhere on the body

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1. Histopathologically, the vast majority are adenocarcinomas; mesenchymal tumors and primary melanomas are extremely rare.

2. Melanomas typically occur in the skin, but may rarely occur in the mouth, intestines, or eye.

3. The beta-decaying isotope 106 of ruthenium is used in radiotherapy of eye tumors, mainly malignant melanomas of the uvea.

4. Zymograms of all melanomas (electrophoresis of tumor extract on agar-agar) showed similar fractions of isodynamic esterases and acid phosphatases which differed only in activity.

5. 5-1/2" Fox Dermal Curette, Round, 4mm Sklar's® Fox Dermal Curette is used for scraping skin lesions and growths such as warts or melanomas

6. Immunohistology may be employed to resolve the differential diagnosis of undifferentiated salivary gland carcinomas, comprising malignant lymphomas, amelanotic melanomas, Merkel cell carcinomas, and adenoid cystic carcinomas, in particular in small biopsy materials.

7. Shave Biopsies remove the outer layers of skin and are fine for some basal cell or squamous cell skin cancers, but usually they aren’t used for suspected melanomas of the skin.

8. Primary melanomas arising on the mucosal surface of the oral cavity or the anogenital areas have some features in common with the acral lentiginous melanoma, and the term 'palmoplantar mucosal melanoma' is sometimes used to describe the entire group.

9. The high proportion of acral melanoma in Blacks and Asians may be the results of relatively low occurrence of melanomas in other parts of skin, owing to their stronger melanin system to block the carcinogenic sunlight as compared with whites.

10. As a class effect, BRAF-inhibitors induce proliferative disorders of keratinocytes and melanocytes, such as palmoplantar hyperkeratosis (as part of the hand-foot syndrome), verruciform and acanthoma-like lesions, follicular and Grover disease-like hyperkeratoses, keratoacanthomas, squamous cell carcinomas and atypical melanocytic nevi with transition to secondary melanomas.

11. A total of 233 recurrences were detected in 112 patients; additionally, 62 newly developing cutaneous melanomas were detected within this period. Of all recurrences, 83% were primarily detected during the scheduled follow-up examinations and in only 17% of all recurrences did the first hint of the developing metastasis come from the patient.