Related Experiment Videos
[Primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus]
A Khoury-Helou1, C Lozac'h, F Vandenbrouke
1Service de chirurgie digestive et endocrinienne, unité I, hôpital de la Cavale-Blanche, 29200 Brest, France.
Annales De Chirurgie
|August 7, 2001
Abstract:
The primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus is a rare tumor. The study aim was to report two cases, one treated by esophagectomy without thoracotomy and the other one by Lewis-Santy type esophagectomy. Both patients had recurrence. One died at the 24th month with liver metastases. The other one who had a cervical invaded lymph node, treated by radio-chemotherapy, is actually in complete remission 9 years after the diagnosis.