Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as a Gastric Mass

Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer. While the jejunum, ileum, colon, and rectum are common gastrointestinal sites of metastasis, metastatic melanoma to the stomach is rare and usually not discovered until late in the disease. We report a patient who presented with weight loss and hemate...

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Autores principales: Groudan, Kevin, Ma, Wendy, Joshi, Kirti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7781786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33415027
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11874
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description Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer. While the jejunum, ileum, colon, and rectum are common gastrointestinal sites of metastasis, metastatic melanoma to the stomach is rare and usually not discovered until late in the disease. We report a patient who presented with weight loss and hematemesis; on esophagogastroduodenoscopy, a gastric mass was found, and pathology was consistent with melanoma. 
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spelling pubmed-77817862021-01-06 Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as a Gastric Mass Groudan, Kevin Ma, Wendy Joshi, Kirti Cureus Gastroenterology Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer. While the jejunum, ileum, colon, and rectum are common gastrointestinal sites of metastasis, metastatic melanoma to the stomach is rare and usually not discovered until late in the disease. We report a patient who presented with weight loss and hematemesis; on esophagogastroduodenoscopy, a gastric mass was found, and pathology was consistent with melanoma.  Cureus 2020-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7781786/ /pubmed/33415027 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11874 Text en Copyright © 2020, Groudan 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.
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Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as a Gastric Mass
title Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as a Gastric Mass
title_full Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as a Gastric Mass
title_fullStr Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as a Gastric Mass
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as a Gastric Mass
title_short Metastatic Melanoma Presenting as a Gastric Mass
title_sort metastatic melanoma presenting as a gastric mass
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7781786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33415027
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11874
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