Penile melanoma

Abstract

Penile melanoma is a rare event, responsible for less than 1.4% of penile cancers. In general, it is late diagnosed and the treatment is usually aggressive. The authors present a 66-year-old Caucasian man who had an ulcerated penile lesion for 1 year, diagnosed as melanoma after biopsy and treated as locally advanced disease with partial penectomy, identification of the sentinel lymph node and bilateral inguinal lymphadenectomy.

Keywords

• melanoma
• penis
• penile neoplasms
• surgical treatment
• penectomy
• sentinel lymph node