Article Text

Download PDFPDF

Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
Subungual malignant melanoma – re-learning the lesson
Free
  1. Kavit Amin,
  2. Katy Edmonds,
  3. Andrew Fleming,
  4. Barry Powell
  1. St George's Medical School, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kavit Amin, kavamin{at}yahoo.co.uk

Summary

The authors present two patients referred by colleagues after traumatic hand injury. However, upon closer inspection, both patients had pigmented lesions under the nail bed, which upon biopsy showed proven subungual malignant melanoma. The authors wish to emphasise the importance of this diagnosis, especially in emergency care.

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Footnotes

  • Competing interests None.

  • Patient consent Obtained.