Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor

BACKGROUND: Primary malignant melanoma of the oesophagus (PMME) is an uncommon tumor. PMME has an aggressive biological behavior, similar to melanomas developed elsewhere in the body. Most patients die from distant metastases, and the overall 5 year survival rate is approximately 4%. CASE PRESENTATI...

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Autores principales: Dionigi, Gianlorenzo, Rovera, Francesca, Boni, Luigi, Imperatori, Andrea, Dionigi, Renzo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1458342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16613599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-22
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author Dionigi, Gianlorenzo
Rovera, Francesca
Boni, Luigi
Imperatori, Andrea
Dionigi, Renzo
author_facet Dionigi, Gianlorenzo
Rovera, Francesca
Boni, Luigi
Imperatori, Andrea
Dionigi, Renzo
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description BACKGROUND: Primary malignant melanoma of the oesophagus (PMME) is an uncommon tumor. PMME has an aggressive biological behavior, similar to melanomas developed elsewhere in the body. Most patients die from distant metastases, and the overall 5 year survival rate is approximately 4%. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of a solitary pulmonary metastasis found 5 years after curative resection of primary esophageal melanoma. No other sites of metastatic disease were identified. Video-assisted lung wedge resection of the lung nodule was carried out successfully. CONCLUSION: This supports the concept that patients with primary melanoma of the oesophagus treated should be carefully followed up.
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spelling pubmed-14583422006-05-06 Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor Dionigi, Gianlorenzo Rovera, Francesca Boni, Luigi Imperatori, Andrea Dionigi, Renzo World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Primary malignant melanoma of the oesophagus (PMME) is an uncommon tumor. PMME has an aggressive biological behavior, similar to melanomas developed elsewhere in the body. Most patients die from distant metastases, and the overall 5 year survival rate is approximately 4%. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of a solitary pulmonary metastasis found 5 years after curative resection of primary esophageal melanoma. No other sites of metastatic disease were identified. Video-assisted lung wedge resection of the lung nodule was carried out successfully. CONCLUSION: This supports the concept that patients with primary melanoma of the oesophagus treated should be carefully followed up. BioMed Central 2006-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC1458342/ /pubmed/16613599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-22 Text en Copyright © 2006 Dionigi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dionigi, Gianlorenzo
Rovera, Francesca
Boni, Luigi
Imperatori, Andrea
Dionigi, Renzo
Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor
title Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor
title_full Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor
title_fullStr Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor
title_full_unstemmed Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor
title_short Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor
title_sort solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1458342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16613599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-4-22
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