Breast parenchyme metastasis in advanced stage malign melanoma: a case report

Although primary breast carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, metastases to the breast are relatively uncommon. The incidence of metastasis to the breast from malignant neoplasms other than primary breast carcinoma varies from %1-5. Both the clinicians and pathologists must be very careful in distinguishing metastasis from primary tumor especially in cases when the breast lesion is the first manifestation of the disease. Furthermore, metastatic lesions can also be solitary instead of being multiple which can also cause difficulty in clinical and radiological diagnosis. In this case, a 76-year old woman with a solitary breast metastasis of melanoma is reported and a review of the literature is performed.

Keywords: Malign melanoma; mammarian metastasis; skin tumor