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Tag Archives: Melanoma
Vitiligo: more than a change in color.
Vitiligo is a very well known disorder due to the loss of the melanocytes in the skin. The mechanism has not been totally elucidated, but an autoimmune reaction against the melanocytes is at the base of this clinical entity. The skin is the most common target, but the hair, including the eyelashes can be also affected.

What´s your Diagnosis?:More than Internal Medicine
Uncommon clinical situations :melanoma
Melanoma is a tumor with a wide spectrum of dissemination. Lung, liver, brain,are the anatomical sites more often affected. Small bowell dissemination is not frequent, but melanoma is one of the tumor with the highest level of metastases to this area.
Intraocular dissemination is uncommon . Here we showed a bilateral orbital dissemination of melanoma.