Malignant melanoma of the stomach presenting in a woman: a case report
| Autor: | Serdar Yildirim, Hüseyin Büyükbayram, Feyzullah Uçmak, Serdar İleri, Sezgin Barutcu, Vedat Göral, İlknur Aslan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Medicine(all)
Gastrointestinal tract Pathology medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Stomach Melanoma lcsh:R lcsh:Medicine Case Report General Medicine medicine.disease Endoscopy medicine.anatomical_structure Surgical oncology Duodenum medicine Gastric mucosa medicine.symptom business Bone pain |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Case Reports Journal of Medical Case Reports, Vol 5, Iss 1, p 94 (2011) |
| ISSN: | 1752-1947 |
| Popis: | Introduction Malignant melanoma is reported to metastasize to all organs of the human body. Although it is common for it to metastasize to the gastrointestinal tract, a melanoma located primarily in the gastric mucosa is an uncommon tumor. Gastrointestinal metastases are rarely diagnosed before death with radiological and endoscopic techniques. Case presentation In this case report the clinical course and treatment of a woman with melanoma of the stomach, without any other detectable primary lesion, is presented and discussed. A 55-year-old Turkish woman presented to our clinic with complaints of muscle pain and bone pain in the left side of her chest. During an upper gastrointestinal system endoscopy, dark cherry-colored, light elevated, round-shaped lesions were taken from her gastric fundus and from the first part of her duodenum. Biopsies from these samples were determined to be malignant melanoma by the pathologist. Conclusion Metastatic malignant melanoma cases should be examined through endoscopy for gastrointestinal metastases. |
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