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Photographs are made before and during the surgical treatment, the excision of large metastatic tumour located on the medial part of the right thigh. A) The micronodular cutaneous melanoma's dissemination on the patient's skin. B) The large tumour located on the medial side of the right thigh with the central, ulcerated part of the tumour. C) The scar (black arrow) after previous inguinal lymphadenectomy and the cutaneous melanoma metastasis (yellow arrow). The differences between the presented tumour and the numerous micronodular skin metastases are evident. D) The analyzed blood vessel (green arrow) extends from distal side of the tumour. Note, that the blood vessel has a typical anatomical localization for the great saphenous vein. The strong wall of this blood vessel is also noticeable. In the background, the compartment after the tumour excision with the anatomical structures is shown: the anterior and medial group of thigh muscles
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After four months the micronodular melanoma's metastases occurred to the skin of the right lower limb (Fig. 1A).