Primary oesophageal melanoma - a case report

Primary upper gastrointestinal tract melanoma is a rare but well recognised entity, with a poor prognosis because of delay in diagnosis. Furthermore, it may be difficult to determine whether a gastrointestinal melanoma represents a metastasis or a primary tumour. We report a 67-year-old man with a p...

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Autores principales: Song, Eric J, Scolyer, Richard A, Damian, Diona L, Thompson, John F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24679002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-77
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description Primary upper gastrointestinal tract melanoma is a rare but well recognised entity, with a poor prognosis because of delay in diagnosis. Furthermore, it may be difficult to determine whether a gastrointestinal melanoma represents a metastasis or a primary tumour. We report a 67-year-old man with a primary oesophageal melanoma, treated with surgical resection, who remains disease-free two years post resection.
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spelling pubmed-39732822014-04-03 Primary oesophageal melanoma - a case report Song, Eric J Scolyer, Richard A Damian, Diona L Thompson, John F World J Surg Oncol Case Report Primary upper gastrointestinal tract melanoma is a rare but well recognised entity, with a poor prognosis because of delay in diagnosis. Furthermore, it may be difficult to determine whether a gastrointestinal melanoma represents a metastasis or a primary tumour. We report a 67-year-old man with a primary oesophageal melanoma, treated with surgical resection, who remains disease-free two years post resection. BioMed Central 2014-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3973282/ /pubmed/24679002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-77 Text en Copyright © 2014 Song et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3973282/
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