Diffuse anorectal melanoma; review of the current diagnostic and treatment aspects based on a case report

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Stoidis, Christos N ^a   Spyropoulos, Basileios G ^a   Misiakos, Evangelos P ^a   Fountzilas, Christos K ^b   Paraskeva, Panorea P ^a   Fotiadis, Constantine I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ATHENS NAVAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINYLDOPA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; ANORECTAL MELANOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CONSTIPATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PARAGANGLIOMA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TUMOR BIOPSY; ANUS TUMOR; ARTICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ANUS NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 69549086453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-7-64     Document Type: Review

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