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Primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report
BACKGROUND: Primary melanoma of the small bowel is extremely rare. Only a limited number of cases have been described in the literature. Mostly, the small intestine is affected by metastatic tumors of other primary lesions, especially cutaneous. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 75-year-old...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5134275/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27906109 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1119-9 |
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author | Ait Idir, B. Riany, A. Jahid, A. Chad, B. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Primary melanoma of the small bowel is extremely rare. Only a limited number of cases have been described in the literature. Mostly, the small intestine is affected by metastatic tumors of other primary lesions, especially cutaneous. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 75-year-old North African woman with a small bowel melanoma. The diagnosis was made by histological examination and immunohistochemical profile matching after a segmental small bowel resection. Postoperative investigations looking for cutaneous, gastrointestinal or ocular primary lesions found no abnormalities. CONCLUSIONS: The diagnosis of primary small bowel melanoma can be retained although it remains difficult to exclude the possibility of metastatic melanoma. |
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spelling | pubmed-51342752016-12-15 Primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report Ait Idir, B. Riany, A. Jahid, A. Chad, B. J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Primary melanoma of the small bowel is extremely rare. Only a limited number of cases have been described in the literature. Mostly, the small intestine is affected by metastatic tumors of other primary lesions, especially cutaneous. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 75-year-old North African woman with a small bowel melanoma. The diagnosis was made by histological examination and immunohistochemical profile matching after a segmental small bowel resection. Postoperative investigations looking for cutaneous, gastrointestinal or ocular primary lesions found no abnormalities. CONCLUSIONS: The diagnosis of primary small bowel melanoma can be retained although it remains difficult to exclude the possibility of metastatic melanoma. BioMed Central 2016-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5134275/ /pubmed/27906109 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1119-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ait Idir, B. Riany, A. Jahid, A. Chad, B. Primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report |
title | Primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report |
title_full | Primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report |
title_fullStr | Primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report |
title_short | Primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report |
title_sort | primary melanoma of the small bowel revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5134275/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27906109 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-1119-9 |
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