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  • Title: [Multiple melanoma in xeroderma pigmentosum].
    Author: Fölster-Holst R, Schubert C, Christophers E.
    Journal: Hautarzt; 1994 Aug; 45(8):554-61. PubMed ID: 7960757.
    Abstract:
    Xeroderma pigmentosum comprises a heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive hereditary diseases, which are characterized by a number of clinical characteristics and an abnormal DNA repair mechanism. Patients affected show a high frequency of mucocutaneous malignant tumors, especially squamous cell carcinomas and basal cell carcinomas. We report on a 65-year-old patient who successively developed a total of 15 malignant melanomas, 1 squamous cell carcinoma and 1 lymph node metastasis of a malignant melanoma. The clinical diagnosis of xeroderma pigmentosum was confirmed by the complementation analysis, which defined our patient as xeroderma pigmentosum of the complementation group D.
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