Metastatic melanoma of the spleen without known primary

We present the case of a patient who underwent a laparoscopic splenectomy for splenomegaly associated with anemia and thrombocytopenia thought to be secondary to lymphoma and was found to have metastatic melanoma without a primary source. This is a rare entity in that the patient falls into an atypi...

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Autores principales: Dusseau, Brian, Onders, Bridget, Radulescu, Andrei, Abourezk, Matthew, Leff, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7737005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33343861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa456
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author Dusseau, Brian
Onders, Bridget
Radulescu, Andrei
Abourezk, Matthew
Leff, John
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description We present the case of a patient who underwent a laparoscopic splenectomy for splenomegaly associated with anemia and thrombocytopenia thought to be secondary to lymphoma and was found to have metastatic melanoma without a primary source. This is a rare entity in that the patient falls into an atypical population group with conflicting opinions about management that has been scarcely reported in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-77370052020-12-17 Metastatic melanoma of the spleen without known primary Dusseau, Brian Onders, Bridget Radulescu, Andrei Abourezk, Matthew Leff, John J Surg Case Rep Case Report We present the case of a patient who underwent a laparoscopic splenectomy for splenomegaly associated with anemia and thrombocytopenia thought to be secondary to lymphoma and was found to have metastatic melanoma without a primary source. This is a rare entity in that the patient falls into an atypical population group with conflicting opinions about management that has been scarcely reported in the literature. Oxford University Press 2020-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7737005/ /pubmed/33343861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa456 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Metastatic melanoma of the spleen without known primary
title Metastatic melanoma of the spleen without known primary
title_full Metastatic melanoma of the spleen without known primary
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title_full_unstemmed Metastatic melanoma of the spleen without known primary
title_short Metastatic melanoma of the spleen without known primary
title_sort metastatic melanoma of the spleen without known primary
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7737005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33343861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa456
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