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Implantation and Evaluation of Melanoma in the Murine Choroid via Optical Coherence Tomography
Published on: December 2, 2022
Primary intestinal melanoma?
Angie Gómez-Uranga1, Pedro Jesús Esteve-Atiénzar2, Antonio López-Jiménez3
1Medicina Interna , Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante, España.
Abstract:
The vast majority of malignant melanomas in the small intestine are metastasis of cutaneous tumors. Few cases have been published on primary melanomas in this location, some authors consider that they are always metastatic and that the primary tumor has regressed. In this letter, we present the case of a 77-year-old woman with a history of cutaneous melanoma excision 38 years ago who was diagnosed with ileal melanoma in the absence of other lesions during the study of iron deficiency anemia, and we discuss about the origin of this type of neoplasms.
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