title: Long-term survival of a female patient with primary malignant melanoma of the urethra.
abstract: Primary malignant melanoma of the female urethra comprises 0.2% of all melanomas and has poor prognosis. In the period 1972-1992, 75 cases of primary urethra carcinomas were treated at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Among them, only an 80-year-old woman was diagnosed with primary malignant melanoma. Despite conservative treatment, she lived for 7 years. We believe that local surgical excision can be an option for treatment in selected patients as it retains quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Division of Molecular Immunology Laboratory, University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rikaniadis
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Konstadoulakis
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Kymionis
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tsibloulis
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Peveretos
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Karakousis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma; D014523:Urethral Neoplasms