Female Urethral Malignant Melanoma With Vesical Invasion: A Case Report

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 96-98

  Akbas, Alpaslan ^a   Akman, Tolga ^a   Erdem, Mehmet Remzi ^a   Antar, Baran ^a   Kilicaslan, Isin ^b   Onol, Sinasi Yavuz ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

female; malignant melanoma; urethra; vesicle invasion

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CYSTOURETHRECTOMY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETHRA MELANOMA;

AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; URETHRAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 76549093102     PISSN: 1607551X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1607-551X(10)70014-0     Document Type: Article

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