Synchronous tonsil, gallbladder, and cardiac metastases without any other visceral metastases of malignant melanoma

Onkologie

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 197-199

  Cicin, Irfan ^a   Usta, Ufuk ^a   Sezer, Atakan ^a   Canbaz, Suat ^a   Uzunoglu, Sernaz ^a   Karagol, Hakan ^a   Genchellac, Hakan ^a   Karasalihoglu, Ahmet Rifat ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gallbladder; Heart; Malignant melanoma; Surgery; Tonsil

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER METASTASIS; HEART METASTASIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TONSIL METASTASIS; TONSILLECTOMY; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS; VISCERA;

EID: 65349084440     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000201126     Document Type: Article

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