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A Melanoma Patient-Derived Xenograft Model
Published on: May 20, 2019
Primary oesophageal melanoma - a case report
Eric J Song1, Richard A Scolyer, Diona L Damian
1Discipline of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney and Bosch Institute, N543 Anderson Stuart Bldg (F13), Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. eric.song@health.nsw.gov.au.
Abstract:
Primary upper gastrointestinal tract melanoma is a rare but well recognised entity, with a poor prognosis because of delay in diagnosis. Furthermore, it may be difficult to determine whether a gastrointestinal melanoma represents a metastasis or a primary tumour. We report a 67-year-old man with a primary oesophageal melanoma, treated with surgical resection, who remains disease-free two years post resection.
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