Metastatic melanoma of the gallbladder: An unusual clinical presentation of acute cholecystitis

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 15, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 3434-3436

  Vernadakis, Spiridon ^a,b   Rallis, Georgios ^a   Danias, Nikolaos ^a   Serafimidis, Costas ^a   Christodoulou, Evangelos ^b   Troullinakis, Michail ^b   Legakis, Nikolaos ^a   Peros, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cholecystectomy; Gallbladder metastasis; Metastatic melanoma; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

DACARBAZINE; INTERFERON; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FATALITY; GALLBLADDER METASTASIS; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH II; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; STOMACH ULCER; GALLBLADDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; FATAL OUTCOME; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 70349573311     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.3434     Document Type: Article

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