## BACKGROUND. To the authors' knowledge, there has been no previous report of primary maligiiant melanoma of bone. ## METHODS. A 33-year-old woman presented with a tumorous lesion in the olecranon of the right ulna. The histologic diagnosis was malignant melanoma with close similarity to clear
Primary clear cell sarcoma (malignant melanoma) in the right radius
β Scribed by Tsutomu Inaoka; Koji Takahashi; Susumu Tandai; Naoyuki Miyokawa; Yasuyuki Abe; Takeo Matsuno; Tamio Aburano
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 354 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2348
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