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Anatomical Mapping of the Liver with Melanoma Metastases: Historical Method

Wilson IB Onuigbo

By 1889, it was already known that performance of autopsies can help in tracing the footsteps of Nature. Now, what can be easier than this practice in cases in which pigment is typically involved, i.e., the melanoma? Therefore, a historical review of pigment cell biology was looked up. Unfortunately, although it purposed to start the study with the earliest studies carried out before 1900, no light was thrown on this particular problem. Accordingly, appeal was sought among the pathologists whose meetings were reported in the Transactions of their London Society. They started in 1846-48, while the name, melanoma, and reportedly came into use in 1838. Therefore, the problem of anatomical mapping of the colonized liver was taken up on historical glands up to 1899.