Anorectal amelanotic melanoma

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 612-615

  Hillenbrand, Andreas ^a   Barth, T F E ^b   Henne Bruns, D ^a   Formentini, A ^a  

^a Department of General Visceral and Transplantation Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amelanotic malignant melanoma; Anal canal; Anorectal malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; ANUS NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 44949251813     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01400.x     Document Type: Article

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