Malignant melanoma metastasizing to the uterus in a patient with atypical postmenopause metrorrhagia

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-80

  Simeone, S ^a   Laterza, M M ^b   Scaravilli, G ^b   Capuano, S ^b   Serao, M ^b   Orabona, P ^b   Rossi, R ^b   Balbi, C ^b  

^a Sant'Anna andS Sebastiano Hospital ^*  (Italy)

^b S Sebastiano Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Metrorrhagia; Myoma; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER TISSUE; CASE REPORT; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MELANOMA; METRORRHAGIA; NEVUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; UTERUS;

BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; METRORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67149139465     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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