Melanoma with gastric metastases

An 81-year-old woman with a history of malignant melanoma who presented with dyspnea and fatigue was found to have metastases to the stomach detected on endoscopy. Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma with gastric metastases is a rare occurrence, and it is often not detected until autopsy because of...

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Autores principales: Wong, Katherine, Serafi, Sam W., Bhatia, Abhijit S., Ibarra, Irene, Allen, Elizabeth A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5016813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27609722
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.31972
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author Wong, Katherine
Serafi, Sam W.
Bhatia, Abhijit S.
Ibarra, Irene
Allen, Elizabeth A.
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description An 81-year-old woman with a history of malignant melanoma who presented with dyspnea and fatigue was found to have metastases to the stomach detected on endoscopy. Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma with gastric metastases is a rare occurrence, and it is often not detected until autopsy because of its non-specific manifestations.
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spelling pubmed-50168132016-09-26 Melanoma with gastric metastases Wong, Katherine Serafi, Sam W. Bhatia, Abhijit S. Ibarra, Irene Allen, Elizabeth A. J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report An 81-year-old woman with a history of malignant melanoma who presented with dyspnea and fatigue was found to have metastases to the stomach detected on endoscopy. Primary cutaneous malignant melanoma with gastric metastases is a rare occurrence, and it is often not detected until autopsy because of its non-specific manifestations. Co-Action Publishing 2016-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5016813/ /pubmed/27609722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.31972 Text en © 2016 Katherine Wong et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wong, Katherine
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Melanoma with gastric metastases
title Melanoma with gastric metastases
title_full Melanoma with gastric metastases
title_fullStr Melanoma with gastric metastases
title_full_unstemmed Melanoma with gastric metastases
title_short Melanoma with gastric metastases
title_sort melanoma with gastric metastases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5016813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27609722
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.31972
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