What symptom does plantar melanoma have?

summary

Melanoma is mainly caused by the malignant proliferation of melanocytes. It often occurs in the extremities, and it will have a very serious impact on the body. Plantar melanoma is the most common subtype of melanoma, its malignant degree is very high, if we delay the disease, it will cause serious danger to the safety of patients, so we must not delay the treatment time.

What symptom does plantar melanoma have?

In patients with plantar melanoma, the skin will appear nevus, and the surface will appear protuberance. And the patient's nevus will appear itching ulceration, if we do not deal with it in time, it is easy to lead to local infection and suppuration.

Plantar melanoma also has asymmetry, its pigment spots are asymmetric, so it looks very ugly. And the edge of melanoma is irregular, usually serrated, unlike normal nevus, which is regular round or oval. In addition, the color of melanoma will also change, it is usually non-toxic black, but sometimes brown, brown, blue, pink, white and other different colors.

The volume of melanoma is larger than ordinary pigmentation, usually more than 5mm in diameter, and even some melanoma diameter is more than 1cm, and growth is very fast, so if we find ourselves with this symptom of nevus, we must pay enough attention to it.

matters needing attention

If patients in daily life, found that they have this symptom, then we must pay enough attention, should be timely surgical treatment, in order to remove the pathological tissue, avoid further aggravation of the disease. In addition, we need to continue the follow-up treatment, in order to reduce the probability of recurrence and metastasis of the disease and avoid the occurrence of accidents.