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Melanoma metastasis to the spleen: Laparoscopic approach

We report a case of minimally invasive surgery in the management of metastasis to the spleen. A 67-year-old male patient with possible splenic soft tissue melanoma metastasis was referred to our hospital. He had a history of an excised soft tissue melanoma from his back eight months earlier, and the...

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Autores principales: Trindade, Manoel Roberto Maciel, Blaya, Rodrigo, Trindade, Eduardo Neubarth
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19547681
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.51316
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description We report a case of minimally invasive surgery in the management of metastasis to the spleen. A 67-year-old male patient with possible splenic soft tissue melanoma metastasis was referred to our hospital. He had a history of an excised soft tissue melanoma from his back eight months earlier, and the control abdominal computer tomography (CT) scan revealed a hypodense spleen lesion. The patient underwent laparoscopic surgery to diagnose and treat the splenic lesion. The splenectomy was performed and the histological examination revealed a melanoma. The patient had a good postoperative course and was discharged on the second postoperative day. On his 12-month follow-up there was no sign of recurrence. The laparoscopic approach is a safe and effective alternative for treatment of splenic metastases.
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spelling pubmed-26990682009-06-22 Melanoma metastasis to the spleen: Laparoscopic approach Trindade, Manoel Roberto Maciel Blaya, Rodrigo Trindade, Eduardo Neubarth J Minim Access Surg Unusual Case We report a case of minimally invasive surgery in the management of metastasis to the spleen. A 67-year-old male patient with possible splenic soft tissue melanoma metastasis was referred to our hospital. He had a history of an excised soft tissue melanoma from his back eight months earlier, and the control abdominal computer tomography (CT) scan revealed a hypodense spleen lesion. The patient underwent laparoscopic surgery to diagnose and treat the splenic lesion. The splenectomy was performed and the histological examination revealed a melanoma. The patient had a good postoperative course and was discharged on the second postoperative day. On his 12-month follow-up there was no sign of recurrence. The laparoscopic approach is a safe and effective alternative for treatment of splenic metastases. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2699068/ /pubmed/19547681 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.51316 Text en © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Trindade, Manoel Roberto Maciel
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Trindade, Eduardo Neubarth
Melanoma metastasis to the spleen: Laparoscopic approach
title Melanoma metastasis to the spleen: Laparoscopic approach
title_full Melanoma metastasis to the spleen: Laparoscopic approach
title_fullStr Melanoma metastasis to the spleen: Laparoscopic approach
title_full_unstemmed Melanoma metastasis to the spleen: Laparoscopic approach
title_short Melanoma metastasis to the spleen: Laparoscopic approach
title_sort melanoma metastasis to the spleen: laparoscopic approach
topic Unusual Case
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2699068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19547681
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.51316
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