title: Primary malignant melanoma of the oesophagus.
abstract: We report the case of a 74-year-old female patient in whom a primary malignant melanoma of the oesophagus was detected at the time of investigation of phlebothrombosis. Therapy of choice for this extremely rare tumour is radical surgical resection of the oesophagus. Even after surgical resection, primary oesophageal melanomas have a very poor prognosis. According to the present state of knowledge, it remains unclear to what extent the prognosis could be improved by adjuvant therapeutic procedures with radiotherapy or chemotherapy and immunostimulation.
authors.affiliation: Clinic for General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Germer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Albrecht
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Foss
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Buhr
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery