Malignant melanoma of the ano-rectal region: Case report and review of the literature;Melanoma malin ano-rectal: Description d'un cas clinique et revue de la litterature

Bulletin du Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 423-426

  Malaguarnera, Mariano ^a   Pistone, Giovanni ^a   Succi, Lino ^a   Pontillo, Tindaro ^a   Laurino, Antonina ^a   Russello, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ano rectal tumours; early diagnosis; melanoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; ANUS TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM TUMOR; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANUS NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030910128     PISSN: 00074551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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