Schizophrenia and Parkinson ’s disease as Risk Factors for Melanoma Development and Progression!

Abstract

We present a 39-year-old male patient with skin tumor, localized on the scalp, paranoid schizophrenia and an idiopathic aplastic anemia. The patient presents with a lesion in Regio occipitalis, which occurred a few years ago and progressively enlarged to a big exophytic tumor, causing pain and occasional bleeding (Figure 1a-d). The patient has been diagnosed with a paranoid schizophrenia more than ten years ago, and since then is on therapy with Amisulpride 400mg/d and Haloperidol 2x1,5 mg/d. He does not follow his therapy strictly, but hospitalization has not been necessary.