TY - JOUR
TI - Diffuse anorectal melanoma; review of the current diagnostic and
treatment aspects based on a case report
AU - Stoidis, Christos N.
AU - Spyropoulos, Basileios G.
AU - Misiakos,
AU - Evangelos P.
AU - Fountzilas, Christos K.
AU - Paraskeva, Panorea P. and
AU - Fotiadis, Constantine I.
JO - World Journal of Surgical Oncology
PY - 2009
VL - 7
TODO - null
SP - null
PB - BMC
SN - 1477-7819
TODO - 10.1186/1477-7819-7-64
TODO - null
TODO - 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.
ER -