The eye of the tiger: Case report of a featureless invasive melanoma disguised within a tattoo with implications for clinical practice (R1)

Raghu Vasanthan¹, Louise Vivien Killen², Cliff Rosendahl^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Capalaba, Australia.
² Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, Macquarie Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Case Reports

Raghu Vasanthan et al. Australas J Dermatol. 2023 Nov.

. 2023 Nov;64(4):e392-e394.

doi: 10.1111/ajd.14166. Epub 2023 Oct 3.

Raghu Vasanthan¹, Louise Vivien Killen², Cliff Rosendahl^{1

3}

¹ Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Capalaba, Australia.
² Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, Macquarie Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

No abstract available

Keywords: clues to melanoma; melanoma; tattoo.

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