Congenital Melanocytic Nevi with Primary Cerebral Melanoma: A Rarity

A16-year-old male was admitted in hospital because of frontal and temporal melanoma. There were congenital giant nevi on his back and head. Positron emission computed tomography revealed no extra-cranial primary lesion. He underwent surgery, whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), and chemotherapy; but he...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Chen, Xin, ZhiMao, Jing, YuZhuo, Hong, Peng, Guang, Wu, Xin, Feng, Yi, Wang, Feng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24381839
_version_ 1782295861617754112
author Chen, Xin
ZhiMao, Jing
YuZhuo, Hong
Peng, Guang
Wu, Xin
Feng, Yi
Wang, Feng
author_facet Chen, Xin
ZhiMao, Jing
YuZhuo, Hong
Peng, Guang
Wu, Xin
Feng, Yi
Wang, Feng
author_sort Chen, Xin
collection PubMed
description A16-year-old male was admitted in hospital because of frontal and temporal melanoma. There were congenital giant nevi on his back and head. Positron emission computed tomography revealed no extra-cranial primary lesion. He underwent surgery, whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), and chemotherapy; but he could not be saved and died 6 months after establishing diagnosis.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-3863832
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2013
publisher EL-MED-Pub
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-38638322013-12-31 Congenital Melanocytic Nevi with Primary Cerebral Melanoma: A Rarity Chen, Xin ZhiMao, Jing YuZhuo, Hong Peng, Guang Wu, Xin Feng, Yi Wang, Feng APSP J Case Rep Case Report A16-year-old male was admitted in hospital because of frontal and temporal melanoma. There were congenital giant nevi on his back and head. Positron emission computed tomography revealed no extra-cranial primary lesion. He underwent surgery, whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), and chemotherapy; but he could not be saved and died 6 months after establishing diagnosis. EL-MED-Pub 2013-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3863832/ /pubmed/24381839 Text en Copyright © 2013 Chen et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Chen, Xin
ZhiMao, Jing
YuZhuo, Hong
Peng, Guang
Wu, Xin
Feng, Yi
Wang, Feng
Congenital Melanocytic Nevi with Primary Cerebral Melanoma: A Rarity
title Congenital Melanocytic Nevi with Primary Cerebral Melanoma: A Rarity
title_full Congenital Melanocytic Nevi with Primary Cerebral Melanoma: A Rarity
title_fullStr Congenital Melanocytic Nevi with Primary Cerebral Melanoma: A Rarity
title_full_unstemmed Congenital Melanocytic Nevi with Primary Cerebral Melanoma: A Rarity
title_short Congenital Melanocytic Nevi with Primary Cerebral Melanoma: A Rarity
title_sort congenital melanocytic nevi with primary cerebral melanoma: a rarity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24381839
work_keys_str_mv AT chenxin congenitalmelanocyticneviwithprimarycerebralmelanomaararity
AT zhimaojing congenitalmelanocyticneviwithprimarycerebralmelanomaararity
AT yuzhuohong congenitalmelanocyticneviwithprimarycerebralmelanomaararity
AT pengguang congenitalmelanocyticneviwithprimarycerebralmelanomaararity
AT wuxin congenitalmelanocyticneviwithprimarycerebralmelanomaararity
AT fengyi congenitalmelanocyticneviwithprimarycerebralmelanomaararity
AT wangfeng congenitalmelanocyticneviwithprimarycerebralmelanomaararity

Ejemplares similares