[Surgical treatment of anorectal melanoma (presentation of 2 cases)]

The Authors describe 2 cases of anorectal melanoma, which underwent operation in the Surgical Clinic of Verona in the years 1981-83. They review the literature confirming the high malignancy of this neoplasm, the poor prognosis forecasting a demolishing surgical treatment only. They, at last, once again affirm the principle whereby the results of such surgery are proportional to the stage of evolution the neoplasm is caught in, and the difficulty to reach a precocious diagnosis is therefore one of the main reasons for the scanty remote results of such surgery.