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Late recurrence phenomenon in the course of melanoma (i.e. first recurrence after a 10 years or more disease free interval) is often ignored. Eleven cases and a literature review are presented. Main conclusions are: --lack of clinical or pathological criteria predicting the risk for a given patient, --possible underevaluation of the number of patients affected by these late recurrences, due to a premature follow up cessation, --advantages of prolonged clinical follow up over ten years aimed at early diagnosis of locoregional metastasis which may benefit from successful surgical treatment.

From 4 cases recently seen at the Institut Gustave-Roussy, this report describes the pathological and evolutive features of benign glandular inclusions in inguinal, pelvic or abdominal lymph nodes. These lesions are defined by the presence of tubular formations in lymph nodes, lined by a single layer of epithelium which is cuboidal or columnar and resembled that of tubal epithelium with ciliated, secretory and intercalary cells. In most cases, benign glandular inclusions in lymph nodes still quiescent. In rare instances, they may proliferate and become papillary. The association of proliferating glandular inclusions in lymph nodes with borderline tumor of the ovary raises the problem of their primary or metastatic origin. However, their pathological features argues for a primary origin in lymph nodes. Thus, we think that a metastatic potential of borderline tumors of the ovary is not supported by any convincing argument.