Primary Retroperitoneal Melanoma Presented in a Rare Extracutaneous Site for Malignant Melanoma | Zendy

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Primary Retroperitoneal Melanoma Presented in a Rare Extracutaneous Site for Malignant Melanoma

Author(s) -

Mohamed Alsharedi,

Nadim Bou Zgheib,

Yousef Khelfa,

Ali Raufi,

Nabiha Elmsherghi,

Yehuda Lebowicz

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

rare tumors

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2036-3613

pISSN - 2036-3605

DOI - 10.4081/rt.2016.6308

Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , malignancy , genitourinary system , pathology , dermatology , cancer research

Malignant melanoma, as the name implies, is a malignant tumor of melanocytes, found in the skin, eyes, meningeal lining and the mucosal epithelium of the aero-digestive and genitourinary tracts. Malignant melanoma is typically skin malignancy, which rarely presents at extracutaneous site. Here we present a rare case of primary retroperitoneal melanoma and review the findings in comparison with other cases described in literature

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