When Lymphatics, the Devil and <i>Maleficent</i> Melanoma meet

Abstract

The subject of lymphatics and cancer had been in the air for a lot of time. The Editor, Paolo Zamboni, came up at first with the idea of writing about this issue and was good enough to ask me to attempt this work after I provided him with images of mesenteric, intestinal and hepatic metastases from a young patient I treated for a malignant melanoma of the skin, in the last year of my surgical practice.

Keywords

• lymphatics
• lymph nodes
• lymphatic system
• melanoma
• metastatic melanoma
• metastatic spread