Malignant gastrointestinal melanomas of unknown origin: Should it be considered primary? [2]

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 4027-4029

  Manouras, Andreas ^a   Genetzakis, M ^a   Lagoudianakis, E ^a   Markogiannakis, H ^a   Papadima, A ^a   Kafiri, G ^a   Filis, K ^a   Kekis, P B ^a   Katergiannakis, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Primary gastrointestinal melanomas; Unknown origin

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45; PROTEIN S 100; TAMOXIFEN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; APUD CELL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL MELANOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; LETTER; MELANOMA; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISCERAL METASTASIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 34547965939     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i29.4027     Document Type: Letter

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