Open AccessA Case of Treated Penile Melanoma with Gastric Recurrence
Author(s) -
Gabriel Melki,
Hadir Mohamed,
Ashima Kapoor,
Jewook Ha,
Abdalla Mohamed,
Varun Patel,
Walid Baddoura
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
middle east journal of digestive diseases./middle east journal of digestive diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.146
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2008-5249
pISSN - 2008-5230
DOI - 10.34172/mejdd.2021.233
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , melena , cancer , lesion , gastrointestinal tract , chemotherapy , metastatic melanoma , surgery , differential diagnosis , pathology , cancer research
Melanoma is a very aggressive skin cancer that could metastasize to any organ in the body. The treatment of melanomas includes surgical resection, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy. After resections, melanomas could recur at the previous site or present as a distant metastatic lesion. The symptoms of melanoma are vague and primarily occur because of the local disruption of the tissue architecture. Presented here is a case of gastric melanoma that presented with abdominal discomfort and melena in a patient with a history of penile melanoma that was completely resected 3 years earlier. This case illustrates the importance of having metastatic lesions to the intestinal tract as a differential for a patient with gastrointestinal hemorrhage.