[Multifocal vulvar pigmentation: Don't ignore a rare diagnosis]

Sara Laurent-Roussel; Françoise Plantier

doi:10.1016/j.annpat.2020.12.002

[Multifocal vulvar pigmentation: Don't ignore a rare diagnosis]

Ann Pathol. 2022 Jan;42(1):76-78. doi: 10.1016/j.annpat.2020.12.002. Epub 2021 Dec 2.

[Article in French]

Authors

Sara Laurent-Roussel¹, Françoise Plantier²

Affiliations

¹ Service de pathologie, hôpital Cochin-Tarnier, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Service de pathologie, hôpital Cochin-Tarnier, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France.

PMID: 34865879
DOI: 10.1016/j.annpat.2020.12.002

Abstract

Vulvar melanoma is a rare tumour, of poorly known pathogenesis, which presents particularities compared to cutaneous melanoma: more frequently achromic and very often multifocal, it is of the lentiginous histological type (MLM), with in half of the cases lentiginous melanocytic hyperplasia at a distance.

Keywords: Mélanome vulvaire; Vulvar melanoma.

MeSH terms

Humans
Hyperplasia
Melanoma* / diagnosis
Pigmentation
Skin Neoplasms*