Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as an Appendiceal Mucocele

Melanoma metastatic to the appendix is extremely rare. Here we describe a case of a 31-year-old female from Bolivia with a remote history of metastatic malignant melanoma first diagnosed as a cutaneous malignant melanoma ten years prior to this presentation. The patient was being followed for a muco...

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Autores principales: Alduaij, A. A., Resnick, M. B., Kawata, M., Pricolo, V. E.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21547210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/546570
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author Alduaij, A. A.
Resnick, M. B.
Kawata, M.
Pricolo, V. E.
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description Melanoma metastatic to the appendix is extremely rare. Here we describe a case of a 31-year-old female from Bolivia with a remote history of metastatic malignant melanoma first diagnosed as a cutaneous malignant melanoma ten years prior to this presentation. The patient was being followed for a mucocele which on resection was found to be metastatic melanoma. “Mucocele” is a generic diagnosis that warrants further characterization and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-30874272011-05-05 Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as an Appendiceal Mucocele Alduaij, A. A. Resnick, M. B. Kawata, M. Pricolo, V. E. J Oncol Case Report Melanoma metastatic to the appendix is extremely rare. Here we describe a case of a 31-year-old female from Bolivia with a remote history of metastatic malignant melanoma first diagnosed as a cutaneous malignant melanoma ten years prior to this presentation. The patient was being followed for a mucocele which on resection was found to be metastatic melanoma. “Mucocele” is a generic diagnosis that warrants further characterization and treatment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3087427/ /pubmed/21547210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/546570 Text en Copyright © 2011 A. A. Alduaij et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as an Appendiceal Mucocele
title Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as an Appendiceal Mucocele
title_full Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as an Appendiceal Mucocele
title_fullStr Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as an Appendiceal Mucocele
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as an Appendiceal Mucocele
title_short Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Presenting as an Appendiceal Mucocele
title_sort metastatic malignant melanoma presenting as an appendiceal mucocele
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21547210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/546570
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