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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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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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author | 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 |
author_facet | 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 |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-56598652017-12-15 Slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature 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 Endosc Int Open 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. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2017-11 2017-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5659865/ /pubmed/29250583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-117951 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | 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 Slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature |
title | Slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature |
title_full | Slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature |
title_fullStr | Slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature |
title_short | Slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature |
title_sort | slow-growing amelanotic malignant melanoma of the esophagus with long survival: a case report and review of the literature |
url | 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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