1. Tl-201 Uptake in an Intracranial Primary Malignant Melanoma
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Takashi Ohnishi, Takahiro Miyazaki, Hiroaki Hoshi, Shinichiro Wakisaka, Katsushi Watanabe, Shigemi Futami, Seishi Jinnouchi, Ryouichi Hamasuna, Takashi Ueda, and Shigeki Nagamachi
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Adult ,Male ,Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Brain Neoplasms ,business.industry ,Melanoma ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Central nervous system disease ,Thallium Radioisotopes ,Neurocutaneous melanosis ,Clinical evidence ,medicine ,Pigmented Nevus ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Giant pigmented nevus ,business - Abstract
A 32-year-old man had a giant pigmented nevus in general at birth in the head, face, chest, and back, and mental retardation and right hemiparesls (unknown cause) developed. A malignant melanoma was suspected on clinical evidence plus the images. At cranlotomy, an intracranial primary malignant melanoma was diagnosed that originated in the pia matter with neurocutaneous melanosis.
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- 1996
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