Malignant melanoma of childhood.A clinicopathologic study and a report of 12 cases

Abstract

Twelve cases of malignant melanoma of childhood were collected from the pathology files of Memorial and James Ewing Hospitals covering a 40-year period from 1928 to 1968. All of these cases had documented evidence of metastatic disease; 4 have survived longer than 5 years, and 2 of these are alive and well more than 15 years after therapeutic regional lymph node dissection. Clinical and pathologic findings in these cases are summarized, and a brief historical review is included.