Abstract:While primary genitourinary melanomas account for less than 1% of all melanoma cases, prostatic melanoma is extremely uncommon. These patients are challenging to identify, with a dismal prognosis. We reported a 52-year-old male patient who presented with lower urinary tract symptoms in the last one and a half months. The patient underwent Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate, and the histopathology result of the resected specimen showed prostatic melanoma. Investigations for systemic melanoma evaluation w… Show more
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