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ANN SAUDI MED 2017 JANUARY-FEBRUARY WWW.ANNSAUDIMED.NET 84 A 77-year-old male patient presented with a darkbrown nodular lesion, which grew within an oval melanocytic nevus 6×4 cm in size located on the skin of the lower abdomen. The nodule appeared 6 months earlier and had reached 2 cm in diameter. The growing cutaneous lesion manifested as a bleeding crusty sore. The nevus was completely excised together with the nodule. Histopathology revealed the nodular type of amelanotic melanoma which was ulcerated and classified as Clark II, Breslow IV (5 mm of infiltration thickness). No clear margins were noted neither vertically nor horizontally and the infiltration of the tumor Metastases of malignant melanoma on the skin of the abdomen and thorax imitating herpes zoster