[Meaning of the concept "local recurrence" following surgical treatment of malignant melanoma of the skin]

Abstract

The paper deals with a retrospective clinico-morphological analysis of the data on 161 cases of secondary tumors developing in the zone of postoperative scar or transplanted skin flap. The results of the study showed lesions traditionally referred to as "local recurrence" of skin melanoma to be pathogenetically different. The data obtained suggest that this term should cover secondary tumors arising in the postoperative scar or transplanted skin flap that develop either from the remnants of primary melanoma or from tumor cells which are brought from anabrotic primary melanoma of surgical wound during excision.