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A 3D Organotypic Melanoma Spheroid Skin Model
Published on: May 18, 2018
Stage IV malignant melanoma of unknown primary site in a young man
Petros Christopoulos1, Triantafyllos Doulias, Ioannis Koutelidakis
12nd Surgical Unit, G. Gennimatas Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
BMJ Case Reports
|August 1, 2012
Abstract:
Metastatic melanoma of unknown primary is a rare entity with low life expectancy. Inoperable metastatic malignant melanoma in lungs has a survival rate of <6%. Regression of the primary lesion is a well-documented theory in the literature, since melanoma is one of the tumours that can undergo regression. We present a case of a young man with metastatic malignant melanoma in lungs, whose survival duration is longer than expected even without metastasectomy.

