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Malignant Melanoma Metastasizes to Colonic Polyp
Malignant tumors metastasizing to the colon has been observed rarely. Gastrointestinal metastasis can present as benign, unpigmented polyps endoscopically. Most patients do not display any symptoms, and if symptomatic, they usually present with gastrointestinal bleeding. For patients with the histor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6101451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30131916 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2822 |
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author | Azharuddin, Muhammad Sharayah, Ahmad Abbas, Syed H Belitsis, Kenneth |
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description | Malignant tumors metastasizing to the colon has been observed rarely. Gastrointestinal metastasis can present as benign, unpigmented polyps endoscopically. Most patients do not display any symptoms, and if symptomatic, they usually present with gastrointestinal bleeding. For patients with the history of melanoma, histopathology of polyp can change or alter the course of management. This is a case of a 74-year-old male diagnosed with recurrent melanoma of left ear. Colon cancer screening found blood in his stool. Colonoscopy displayed to have three polyps, one polyp was found to be malignant melanoma. The patient was started on Pembrolizumab, and was tolerating immunotherapy well with no new complaints three months later. |
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spelling | pubmed-61014512018-08-21 Malignant Melanoma Metastasizes to Colonic Polyp Azharuddin, Muhammad Sharayah, Ahmad Abbas, Syed H Belitsis, Kenneth Cureus Internal Medicine Malignant tumors metastasizing to the colon has been observed rarely. Gastrointestinal metastasis can present as benign, unpigmented polyps endoscopically. Most patients do not display any symptoms, and if symptomatic, they usually present with gastrointestinal bleeding. For patients with the history of melanoma, histopathology of polyp can change or alter the course of management. This is a case of a 74-year-old male diagnosed with recurrent melanoma of left ear. Colon cancer screening found blood in his stool. Colonoscopy displayed to have three polyps, one polyp was found to be malignant melanoma. The patient was started on Pembrolizumab, and was tolerating immunotherapy well with no new complaints three months later. Cureus 2018-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6101451/ /pubmed/30131916 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2822 Text en Copyright © 2018, Azharuddin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Azharuddin, Muhammad Sharayah, Ahmad Abbas, Syed H Belitsis, Kenneth Malignant Melanoma Metastasizes to Colonic Polyp |
title | Malignant Melanoma Metastasizes to Colonic Polyp |
title_full | Malignant Melanoma Metastasizes to Colonic Polyp |
title_fullStr | Malignant Melanoma Metastasizes to Colonic Polyp |
title_full_unstemmed | Malignant Melanoma Metastasizes to Colonic Polyp |
title_short | Malignant Melanoma Metastasizes to Colonic Polyp |
title_sort | malignant melanoma metastasizes to colonic polyp |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6101451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30131916 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2822 |
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