[A woman with a perianal skin disease].

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd

Diakonessenhuis, afd. Heelkunde, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Published: November 2012

A 69-year-old woman presented with a large pigmented perianal ulcer and inguinal lymphomas. The ulcer was fixed to the rectovaginal septum and the anal sphincter. Histological examination of a perianal skin biopsy revealed an anorectal melanoma. Prognosis is poor in these patients, median survival being less than 20 months.

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