Delayed malignant melanoma recurrence simulating primary ovarian cancer: Case report

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Boutis, Anastasios ^a,b   Valeri, Rosalia ^a   Korantzis, Ippokratis ^a   Valoukas, Dimitrios ^a   Andronikidis, Ioannis ^a,c   Andreadis, Charalambos ^a  

^a THEAGENIO CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b 2nd IKA General Hospital   (Greece)

^c AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; MELPHALAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREMENOPAUSE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149089905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-6-124     Document Type: Article

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