A case of a largely achromic melanoblastoma of the thumb (right hand) arising from the subungual layer is described.
This tumour is worth being particularly considered, because of its unfrequent occurrence and clinical peculiarities; furthermore it may be diagnosed (at least at first) as a chronic phlogistic process.
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