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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Melanoma is a very high mortality rate that increases the incidence of each year and is often a neoplasm that develops from the skin. The study that reflects the data of this neoplasm, with its mortality quite high, is still limited today. We also evaluated the occurrences of skin melanoma treated in our hospital as retrospective and planned to compare with other studies. Method and Requirements: Clinical and histopathological characteristics of 57 patients diagnosed with skin melanoma in our hospital's pathological clinic between 2010 and 2019 were studied. The average age of patients (1956) is 63.18+16.54. According to localization, our 21 patients (36.8 percent) are localized in the head neck, our 16 patients (28.1 percent) in the lower limb, our 11 patients (19.3 percent) in the upper limb, and our 9 patients (15.8 percent) in the body. At the minimum 1 year of our cases and at the maximum 10 years of follow-up, 9 (15.8%) patients developed metastases. In our study, 40 patients (%70.2) were diagnosed with nodular melanoma, 8 patients (%14) superficial, 2 patients (%3.5) Lentigo, 7 patients (%12.3) acral melanoma. Consequently, the majority of our melanoma occurred in the head-to-head area and in the nodular type due to sun exposure. Our study showed that these patients were referring to the health institution in the late stage. In melanoma, early diagnosis is seriously affected by the prognosis.

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