Effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus is a rare but highly aggressive tumor with poor prognosis. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice. However, some cases may be diagnosed with advanced inoperable disease. Palliative radiotherapy may be used to relieve symptoms caused by...

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Autores principales: Nonoshita, Takeshi, Shioyama, Yoshiyuki, Nomoto, Satoshi, Ohga, Saiji, Ohnishi, Kayoko, Atsumi, Kazushige, Terashima, Kotaro, Matsuura, Shuji, Nakamura, Katsumasa, Hirata, Hideki, Honda, Hiroshi
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Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918497
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6928
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author Nonoshita, Takeshi
Shioyama, Yoshiyuki
Nomoto, Satoshi
Ohga, Saiji
Ohnishi, Kayoko
Atsumi, Kazushige
Terashima, Kotaro
Matsuura, Shuji
Nakamura, Katsumasa
Hirata, Hideki
Honda, Hiroshi
author_facet Nonoshita, Takeshi
Shioyama, Yoshiyuki
Nomoto, Satoshi
Ohga, Saiji
Ohnishi, Kayoko
Atsumi, Kazushige
Terashima, Kotaro
Matsuura, Shuji
Nakamura, Katsumasa
Hirata, Hideki
Honda, Hiroshi
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description INTRODUCTION: Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus is a rare but highly aggressive tumor with poor prognosis. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice. However, some cases may be diagnosed with advanced inoperable disease. Palliative radiotherapy may be used to relieve symptoms caused by the esophageal tumor. CASE PRESENTATION: We report on a case of advanced inoperable primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus treated with palliative radiotherapy. The patient’s dysphagia resolved with radiotherapy. CONCLUSION: Malignant melanoma of the esophagus is rare. Patients with advanced inoperable malignant melanomas of the esophagus benefit from radiation therapy. Radiation therapy is effective for palliation.
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spelling pubmed-27693272009-11-16 Effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report Nonoshita, Takeshi Shioyama, Yoshiyuki Nomoto, Satoshi Ohga, Saiji Ohnishi, Kayoko Atsumi, Kazushige Terashima, Kotaro Matsuura, Shuji Nakamura, Katsumasa Hirata, Hideki Honda, Hiroshi Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus is a rare but highly aggressive tumor with poor prognosis. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice. However, some cases may be diagnosed with advanced inoperable disease. Palliative radiotherapy may be used to relieve symptoms caused by the esophageal tumor. CASE PRESENTATION: We report on a case of advanced inoperable primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus treated with palliative radiotherapy. The patient’s dysphagia resolved with radiotherapy. CONCLUSION: Malignant melanoma of the esophagus is rare. Patients with advanced inoperable malignant melanomas of the esophagus benefit from radiation therapy. Radiation therapy is effective for palliation. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2769327/ /pubmed/19918497 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6928 Text en © 2009 Nonoshita et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Nonoshita, Takeshi
Shioyama, Yoshiyuki
Nomoto, Satoshi
Ohga, Saiji
Ohnishi, Kayoko
Atsumi, Kazushige
Terashima, Kotaro
Matsuura, Shuji
Nakamura, Katsumasa
Hirata, Hideki
Honda, Hiroshi
Effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report
title Effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report
title_full Effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report
title_fullStr Effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report
title_short Effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report
title_sort effective palliative radiotherapy in primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918497
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6928
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