@article{3143085,
    title = "Diffuse anorectal melanoma; review of the current diagnostic and
treatment aspects based on a case report",
    author = "Stoidis, Christos N. and Spyropoulos, Basileios G. and Misiakos, and Evangelos P. and Fountzilas, Christos K. and Paraskeva, Panorea P. and and Fotiadis, Constantine I.",
    journal = "World Journal of Surgical Oncology",
    year = "2009",
    volume = "7",
    publisher = "BMC",
    issn = "1477-7819",
    doi = "10.1186/1477-7819-7-64",
    abstract = "Primary anorectal melanoma is a rare and aggressive disease. Patients
commonly complain for changes in bowel habits and rectal bleeding, and
proctoscopically they mostly appear as non pigmented or lightly
pigmented polypoid lesions. Such a lesion should always raise a high
index of suspicion in any gastroenterologist or surgeon to prompt
surgery, since early radical excision is the only treatment option.
Herein, we report a case of a 57-year-old man with a diffuse anal canal
melanoma and give reference to the current diagnostic and treatment
options."
}