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Slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature

Background and study aims  We report a case of amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus (AMME), an exceedingly rare disease. A 77-year-old Japanese woman presented to our hospital with features suggestive of a middle esophageal submucosal tumor, which was diagnosed pathologically as AMME. The...

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Autores principales: Hirayama, Yutaka, Masahiro, Tajika, Tanaka, Tsutomu, Ishihara, Makoto, Ohnishi, Sachiyo, Hara, Kazuo, Mizuno, Nobumasa, Hijioka, Susumu, Okuno, Nozomi, Abe, Tetsuya, Uemura, Norihisa, Kawakami, Jiro, Kurahashi, Shintarou, Shimizu, Yasuhiro, Yatabe, Yasushi, Niwa, Yasumasa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2017
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5659865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29250583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-117951
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Sumario:Background and study aims  We report a case of amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus (AMME), an exceedingly rare disease. A 77-year-old Japanese woman presented to our hospital with features suggestive of a middle esophageal submucosal tumor, which was diagnosed pathologically as AMME. The patient underwent thoracoscopic resection of the esophagus and laparoscopic gastric tube reconstruction. Three years after surgery, computed tomography showed no recurrence. Generally, the prognosis of malignant melanoma of the esophagus is very poor. However, our patient had no recurrence, and is alive 3 years after surgery and 5 years after the tumor was first detected.