Melanoma of the gallbladder: appropriate surgical management and review of the literature

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Melanomas of the gallbladder (GB) are extremely rare with a very poor prognosis. They feature in the literature as a few case reports and the method of their management is not clear. We report a case of patient with metastatic cutaneous melanoma to the GB, and our treatment sug...

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Autores principales: Christou, Demetris, Katodritis, Nicos, Decatris, Marios P, Katodritou, Angela, Michaelides, Ioannis, Nicolaou, Nicolaos, Kounoushis, Michalis, Hadjicostas, Panayiotis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25548636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.121
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author Christou, Demetris
Katodritis, Nicos
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Katodritou, Angela
Michaelides, Ioannis
Nicolaou, Nicolaos
Kounoushis, Michalis
Hadjicostas, Panayiotis
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Katodritis, Nicos
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description KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Melanomas of the gallbladder (GB) are extremely rare with a very poor prognosis. They feature in the literature as a few case reports and the method of their management is not clear. We report a case of patient with metastatic cutaneous melanoma to the GB, and our treatment suggestion.
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spelling pubmed-42707162014-12-29 Melanoma of the gallbladder: appropriate surgical management and review of the literature Christou, Demetris Katodritis, Nicos Decatris, Marios P Katodritou, Angela Michaelides, Ioannis Nicolaou, Nicolaos Kounoushis, Michalis Hadjicostas, Panayiotis Clin Case Rep Case Reports KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Melanomas of the gallbladder (GB) are extremely rare with a very poor prognosis. They feature in the literature as a few case reports and the method of their management is not clear. We report a case of patient with metastatic cutaneous melanoma to the GB, and our treatment suggestion. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-12 2014-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4270716/ /pubmed/25548636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.121 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Kounoushis, Michalis
Hadjicostas, Panayiotis
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title_full Melanoma of the gallbladder: appropriate surgical management and review of the literature
title_fullStr Melanoma of the gallbladder: appropriate surgical management and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Melanoma of the gallbladder: appropriate surgical management and review of the literature
title_short Melanoma of the gallbladder: appropriate surgical management and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270716/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.121
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