Primary malignant melanoma of the vagina: A case report and review of literature

A 60 year old woman presented in gynecology department with bleeding per vagina and subsequently histotpathologically, it was diagnosed as malignant melanoma of the vagina. She underwent excision biopsy. On metastatic work-up, Positron emission tomography (PET) scan proved that she had distant metas...

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Autores principales: Chaudhuri, Snehamay, Das, Diptimay, Chowdhury, Soham, Gupta, Anjan Das
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455530
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.105861
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author Chaudhuri, Snehamay
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description A 60 year old woman presented in gynecology department with bleeding per vagina and subsequently histotpathologically, it was diagnosed as malignant melanoma of the vagina. She underwent excision biopsy. On metastatic work-up, Positron emission tomography (PET) scan proved that she had distant metastasis and received palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy, with temozolamide. She is alive after one year.
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spelling pubmed-38766292014-01-16 Primary malignant melanoma of the vagina: A case report and review of literature Chaudhuri, Snehamay Das, Diptimay Chowdhury, Soham Gupta, Anjan Das South Asian J Cancer Case Report A 60 year old woman presented in gynecology department with bleeding per vagina and subsequently histotpathologically, it was diagnosed as malignant melanoma of the vagina. She underwent excision biopsy. On metastatic work-up, Positron emission tomography (PET) scan proved that she had distant metastasis and received palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy, with temozolamide. She is alive after one year. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3876629/ /pubmed/24455530 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.105861 Text en Copyright: © South Asian Journal of Cancer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Primary malignant melanoma of the vagina: A case report and review of literature
title_full Primary malignant melanoma of the vagina: A case report and review of literature
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title_short Primary malignant melanoma of the vagina: A case report and review of literature
title_sort primary malignant melanoma of the vagina: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876629/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.105861
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