title: [Malignant vulvo-vaginal melanoma. Review of the literature and a clinical case].
abstract: Vaginal melanoma is a quite rare pathology and represent the 2.6% of overall primitive vaginal tumors. The development of this disease is very aggressive and the 5 years survival is only the 7%. A radical surgical effort seems not improve the survival than a wide local exision. The authors give in this article a wide review of the literature about the vaginal melanoma and the personal observation. We believe that despite the unfrequency of this disease, it could be always taken in mind on the clinical approach with aged women.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014625:Vaginal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Il melanoma maligno vulvo-vaginale. Revisione della letteratura e caso clinico.