Synchronous cervical and vulvar malign melanomas: Metastasis or multifocality of the disease? A case report and review of the literature

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 917-920

  Akoz, I ^a   Ayas, S ^a,b   Eren, S ^a   Bilgic, R ^a  

^a Zeynep Kamil Women's and Children's Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Malign melanoma; Multifocality; Vulva

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DACARBAZINE; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLPOSCOPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RECURRENCE RISK; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX MELANOMA; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVA MELANOMA; VULVECTOMY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646047131     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2006.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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