Regional perfusion for recurrent malignant melanoma of the extremities.
Seventeen patients with a local recurrence or intransit metastases of a malignant melanoma of the arm or leg were treated by normothermic regional perfusion with phenylalanine mustard. Seven of these patients had regional lymph node metastases as well. The follow-up period was with five to eight years or until the time of death. Two years after treatment, eleven of the seventeen patients were still alive. After a five year follow-up, six patients were still alive without demonstrable recurrence or metastases. Only three patients had a recurrence in an extremity; two of these three patients simultaneously showed general metastization.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D010478:Chemotherapy, Cancer, Regional Perfusion; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010649:Phenylalanine / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D010649:Phenylalanine