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The term recurrent melanoma has been used to describe two very different clinical and pathological conditions (Heenan 2002). The fi rst is a melanoma that reappeared from cells left behind after incomplete excision of a primary melanoma. The second is metastasis, either local or distant. Local metastasis can appear close to or even around the scar from a complete excision of a primary melanoma (due to local hemolymphatic spread of melanoma to the surrounding tissue prior to the surgical excision).
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Massi, G., LeBoit, P.E. (2014). Recurrent and Persistent Melanoma. In: Histological Diagnosis of Nevi and Melanoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37311-4_49
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