title: [Malignant melanoma of soft parts (clear cell sarcoma)--a rare case of multiorgan localization].
abstract: Malignant melanoma of soft parts (MMSP) is a rare tumor originally described by Enzinger in 1965 as clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses because of its affinity to tenosynovial structures. Tumors are found predominantly at the extremities. First visceral case was described in 1993 in the duodenum. We describe the case of 64-years old man with malignant melanoma of soft parts in the stomach, in the pancreas, in the mesocolon, in the left thigh and in the left axilla. This patient was successfully treated surgically by the resection of the stomach, resection of the pancreatic head, extirpation of the tumor from mesocolon, from the left thigh and from the left axilla. In all these localisations the tumor was histologically and imunohistochemically proved to be MMSP (positivity: s-100 protein, vimentin, HMB-45 and negativity CK, EMA, desmin, actin). This multivisceral occurrence is extremely rare and according to the review of literature this is probably the first published case of MMSP in the stomach and in the pancreas.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgická klinika IVZ, Nemocnica F. D. Roosevelta, Banská Bystrica, Slovenská republika.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kothaj
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Turcan
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Marko
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cunderlík
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fukal
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okapec
mesh_terms: D001365:Axilla; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D018227:Sarcoma, Clear Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013848:Thigh