Zaouak Anissa, Hammami Houda, Jouini Raja, Salah Mariem Belhaj, Debbiche Achraf, Fenniche Samy
Department of Dermatology, Habib Thameur Hospital, Research Unit "Genodermatoses and Cancers" LR12SP03, Tunis, Tunisia;
Department of Dermatology, Habib Thameur Hospital, Research Unit "Genodermatoses and Cancers" LR12SP03, Tunis, Tunisia.
Skinmed. 2018 Apr 1;16(2):122-123. eCollection 2018.
78-year-old man presented with complaints of progressive nasal blockage and epistaxis over the previous 2 months. Clinical examination revealed a nodular, polypoid, ulcerated nonpigmented tumor filling the right nasal cavity (Figure 1). A punch biopsy was taken from the mass for histopathologic examination, which revealed many melanocytes in the submucosa. The stroma contained large numbers of spindle-shaped cells with hyperchromatic spindleoid nuclei (Figure 2), confirming the diagnosis of malignant melanoma. The tumor cells stained positive for melan-A (Figure 3) and HMB-45.