Malignant melanoma metastasis as a cause of small-bowel perforation

Onkologie

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 356-358

  Tsilimparis, Nikolaos ^a   Menenakos, Charalampos ^a   Rogalla, Patrick ^a   Braumann, Chris ^a   Hartmann, Jens ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bowel perforation; Gastrointestinal metastasis; Malignant melanoma

Indexed keywords

DACARBAZINE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; GALLBLADDER METASTASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SKIN INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; VISCERAL METASTASIS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67650239580     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000215718     Document Type: Article

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