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Giuseppe Resta1, Gabriele Anania, Federico Messina
1Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Anestesiologiche e Radiologiche, Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica, Arcispedale S. Anna, Corso Giovecca, Ferrara 203-44100, Italy.
Abstract:
Cutaneous melanoma is one of the most studied neoplastic lesions in biology and clinical oncology. It has been well documented that this type of neoplasm presents a high metastatic rate, and is able to involve nearly every tissue. Non-cutaneous melanoma represents an unusual pattern of melanoma, and the small intestine is an uncommon anatomic localization. Herein we report an extremely rare clinical case of a young woman affected by a bleeding jejunal melanoma, whose early clinical presentation was an intestinal invagination.
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