Do Not Skip the Retroflexion: A Case of Disseminated Anorectal Mucosal Melanoma

Less than 4% of melanomas are of mucosal origin, with primary anorectal mucosal melanomas comprising a small subset. Mucosal melanomas are often diagnosed at an advanced stage due to delay in patient presentation and obscured tumor origins leading to a more aggressive behavior and less favorable pro...

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Autores principales: Chittajallu, Vibhu, Simons-Linares, Carlos Roberto, Oshilaja, Olaronke, Chahal, Prabhleen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7862005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33553463
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000513
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author Chittajallu, Vibhu
Simons-Linares, Carlos Roberto
Oshilaja, Olaronke
Chahal, Prabhleen
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description Less than 4% of melanomas are of mucosal origin, with primary anorectal mucosal melanomas comprising a small subset. Mucosal melanomas are often diagnosed at an advanced stage due to delay in patient presentation and obscured tumor origins leading to a more aggressive behavior and less favorable prognosis when compared with cutaneous melanomas. We present a case of metastatic anorectal mucosal melanoma with a negative colonoscopy 1 year earlier.
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spelling pubmed-78620052021-02-05 Do Not Skip the Retroflexion: A Case of Disseminated Anorectal Mucosal Melanoma Chittajallu, Vibhu Simons-Linares, Carlos Roberto Oshilaja, Olaronke Chahal, Prabhleen ACG Case Rep J Case Report Less than 4% of melanomas are of mucosal origin, with primary anorectal mucosal melanomas comprising a small subset. Mucosal melanomas are often diagnosed at an advanced stage due to delay in patient presentation and obscured tumor origins leading to a more aggressive behavior and less favorable prognosis when compared with cutaneous melanomas. We present a case of metastatic anorectal mucosal melanoma with a negative colonoscopy 1 year earlier. Wolters Kluwer 2021-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7862005/ /pubmed/33553463 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000513 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Do Not Skip the Retroflexion: A Case of Disseminated Anorectal Mucosal Melanoma
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title_full Do Not Skip the Retroflexion: A Case of Disseminated Anorectal Mucosal Melanoma
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title_short Do Not Skip the Retroflexion: A Case of Disseminated Anorectal Mucosal Melanoma
title_sort do not skip the retroflexion: a case of disseminated anorectal mucosal melanoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7862005/
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