Acral melanoma three years after surgery with metastasis to the breast. Case report

Cutaneous melanoma is the cancer with the highest mortality of skin cancers, acral melanoma is derived from epidermal melanocytes of the palm, soles, or nails, it is the most common subtype of melanoma with 2%, it occurs more in people with pigmented skin. They produce metastasis in 20% of cases and to the breast they are infrequent. We present the case of a patient with a diagnosis of acral melanoma in the right foot 6 years ago, who received treatment with remission, however three years ago she presented a recurrence with metastasis to the skin of the abdomen again with treatment and remission, currently there is a lesion in Left breast which is ulcerated and destroys the mammary stroma, the histopathological study confirms metastatic pigmented melanoma to the skin and mammary glandular tissue.