1. Giant melanoma of the abdomen: case report and revision of the published cases
- Author
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Enzo Errichetti, Alessandro Gatti, Nicola di Meo, Serena Bonin, Giuseppe Stinco, Sara Trevisini, Antonio Albano, Giusto Trevisan, DI MEO, Nicola, Stinco, G, Gatti, Alessandro, Errichetti, E, Bonin, Serena, Albano, A, Trevisini, S, and Trevisan, Giusto
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giant cutaneous melanoma ,Skin Neoplasms ,Biopsy ,physical examination ,n ras protein ,Abdominal wall ,stem cell factor ,fine needle aspiration biopsy ,EMTREE drug terms: B Raf kinase ,Melanoma ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,article ,guanosine triphosphatase ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,melanin ,Clinical Practice ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,dissection ,cancer grading ,Female ,cancer surgery ,mutational analysis ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Dermatology ,histology ,Diagnosis, Differential ,cutaneous melanoma ,DNA ,lactate dehydrogenase ,unclassified drug EMTREE medical terms: adult ,asymptomatic disease ,axillary lymph node ,case report ,computer assisted emission tomography ,erythema ,female ,human ,human tissue ,middle aged ,tumor bleeding ,tumor volume ,giant menoma ,medicine ,Humans ,Melanoma diagnosis ,neoplasms ,business.industry ,Abdominal Wall ,medicine.disease ,Cutaneous melanoma ,Abdomen ,business ,Cutaneous mass - Abstract
Malignant melanoma presenting as a giant cutaneous mass is rarely observed in clinical practice. A few patients with giant melanoma have been reported, Herein, we document our experience with a patient with giant cutaneous melanoma of the abdomen and review the features of previously reported individuals.
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- 2014