A Rare Case of Primary Anorectal Malignant Melanoma

Malignant melanoma affecting the anorectum is very rare. We present a 63-year-old female who presented with features of bleeding per rectum and painful defecation. On examination, the patient had a palpable mass on the right side of the anorectum, with predominant exophytic growth and intraluminal e...

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Autores principales: Bhattarai, Sandeep, Shaikh, Oseen, Gaur, Naveen Kumar, Tajudeen, Muhamed, Kumbhar, Uday
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8259073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34262812
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15474
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author Bhattarai, Sandeep
Shaikh, Oseen
Gaur, Naveen Kumar
Tajudeen, Muhamed
Kumbhar, Uday
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description Malignant melanoma affecting the anorectum is very rare. We present a 63-year-old female who presented with features of bleeding per rectum and painful defecation. On examination, the patient had a palpable mass on the right side of the anorectum, with predominant exophytic growth and intraluminal extension. Biopsy and imaging studies were diagnostic of malignant melanoma. The patient was discussed on the tumor board and planned for abdominoperineal resection. Postoperatively, the patient was started on chemotherapy. The patient was followed up for two years, and there was no evidence of any recurrence.
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spelling pubmed-82590732021-07-13 A Rare Case of Primary Anorectal Malignant Melanoma Bhattarai, Sandeep Shaikh, Oseen Gaur, Naveen Kumar Tajudeen, Muhamed Kumbhar, Uday Cureus Pathology Malignant melanoma affecting the anorectum is very rare. We present a 63-year-old female who presented with features of bleeding per rectum and painful defecation. On examination, the patient had a palpable mass on the right side of the anorectum, with predominant exophytic growth and intraluminal extension. Biopsy and imaging studies were diagnostic of malignant melanoma. The patient was discussed on the tumor board and planned for abdominoperineal resection. Postoperatively, the patient was started on chemotherapy. The patient was followed up for two years, and there was no evidence of any recurrence. Cureus 2021-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8259073/ /pubmed/34262812 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15474 Text en Copyright © 2021, Bhattarai et al. https://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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