MELANOMA CUTANEOUS METASTASES LOCALIZED O N A SKIN-GRAFT DONOR SITE

Introduction. We report one case of melanoma cutaneous metastases stri ctly localized on a skin graft donor site distant from the tumor site. Case report. A patient with a shoulder melanoma was treated by surger y. A split-thickness skin graft was taken from a thigh to cover the ra w area. Six months later, nodular cutaneous metastases strictly locali zed on the skin graft donor site appeared. Comments. Physiopathology o f those lesions is unknown. Hyaluronic acid is increased in granulatio n tissue and could be chimiotactic for melanoma cells.