Colonic malignant melanoma, primary or metastatic? Case report

Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-49

  Serin, Gürdeniz ^a   Doǧanavşargil, Başak ^a   Çalişkan, Cemil ^a   Akalin, Taner ^a   Sezak, Murat ^a   Tunçyürek, Müge ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cecum; Gastrointestinal; HMB 45; Malignant melanoma; Melan A; Neoplasm; S 100 protein

Indexed keywords

HMB 45; MELAN A; PROTEIN S 100; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN; MELANOMA ANTIGEN; MLANA PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CECUM; CYTOPLASM; DIARRHEA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIMARY TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; CECUM TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CECAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MART-1 ANTIGEN; MELANOMA; MELANOMA-SPECIFIC ANTIGENS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; S100 PROTEINS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 77951838963     PISSN: 13004948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4318/tjg.2010.0048     Document Type: Article

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