Anorectal melanoma: Not a haemorrhoid

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 127, Issue 1395, 2014, Pages 73-81

  Turner, Greg ^a   Abbott, Sarah ^a   Eglinton, Tim ^a   Wakeman, Chris ^a   Frizelle, Frank ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IPILIMUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL COMPLAINT; ANORECTAL MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HEMORRHOID; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INGUINAL REGION; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; VERY ELDERLY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANAL CANAL; CANCER STAGING; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISSECTION; FATALITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM; RECTUM TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; COLONOSCOPY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISSECTION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 84907168941     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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