Malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary

Malignant melanoma is rare in India; melanoma presenting as a metastatic disease with an unknown primary, involving the gastrointestinal tract without involving lymph nodes is extremely uncommon. We report a case of a 28-year-old male with a malignant melanoma metastasizing to stomach and liver with...

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Autores principales: Krishna Mohan, M.V.T., Rajappa, Senthil J., Reddy, T. Vamshidhar, Paul, T. Roshni
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20596310
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.60055
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author Krishna Mohan, M.V.T.
Rajappa, Senthil J.
Reddy, T. Vamshidhar
Paul, T. Roshni
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Rajappa, Senthil J.
Reddy, T. Vamshidhar
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description Malignant melanoma is rare in India; melanoma presenting as a metastatic disease with an unknown primary, involving the gastrointestinal tract without involving lymph nodes is extremely uncommon. We report a case of a 28-year-old male with a malignant melanoma metastasizing to stomach and liver with an unknown primary. Relevant literature is being reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-28858782010-07-01 Malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary Krishna Mohan, M.V.T. Rajappa, Senthil J. Reddy, T. Vamshidhar Paul, T. Roshni Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Malignant melanoma is rare in India; melanoma presenting as a metastatic disease with an unknown primary, involving the gastrointestinal tract without involving lymph nodes is extremely uncommon. We report a case of a 28-year-old male with a malignant melanoma metastasizing to stomach and liver with an unknown primary. Relevant literature is being reviewed. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2885878/ /pubmed/20596310 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.60055 Text en © Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology 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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Krishna Mohan, M.V.T.
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Reddy, T. Vamshidhar
Paul, T. Roshni
Malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary
title Malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary
title_full Malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary
title_fullStr Malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary
title_full_unstemmed Malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary
title_short Malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary
title_sort malignant gastrointestinal melanoma with an unknown primary
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20596310
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.60055
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