Metastatic melanoma-asociated poliosis

Eyelashes poliosis as first sign of metastatic melanoma

“…Eyelash poliosis has been described as an atypical manifestation of metastatic melanoma recurrence in one patient who underwent primitive lesion excision three years before; similarly to our case, the primary melanoma was distant from the area of poliosis. 7 The peculiarity of our case is that eyelash poliosis manifested as first clinical sign of an undiagnosed melanoma, not adjacent to the localization of the whitening in contrast to what reported so far, nor a consequence of medication use.…”