Malignant melanoma with liver and spleen metastases: case report
| Autor: | Laura Cotta Ornellas, Valéria Pereira Lanzoni, Carlos Fischer de Toledo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | São Paulo Medical Journal, Vol 118, Iss 2, Pp 53-56 (2000) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1806-9460 1516-3180 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/S1516-31802000000200006 |
| Popis: | CONTEXT: The diagnosis of primary melanoma is easily confirmed after histological analysis of the lesion, whereas it is rarely diagnosed when the patient even has distant metastases. DESIGN: Case report CASE REPORT: Malignant melanoma is responsible for about 1% of all deaths caused by cancer in the USA and only 3% of all malig-nant skin diseases. Malignant melanoma is a rare disease, although it corresponds to 65% of all deaths caused by skin cancer. The liver and spleen are rarely the first sites of melanoma metastases. This paper reports on the clinical picture of a patient with fatal malignant melanoma and hepatic and spleen metastases. As this was an un-usual presentation, the melanoma diagnosis could only be made after pathological analysis of the skin and hepatic lesions. |
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