Jejuno-jejunal invagination due to intestinal melanoma.
Cutaneous melanoma is one of the most studied neoplastic lesions in biology and clinical oncology. It has been well documented that this type of neoplasm presents a high metastatic rate, and is able to involve nearly every tissue. Non-cutaneous melanoma represents an unusual pattern of melanoma, and the small intestine is an uncommon anatomic localization. Herein we report an extremely rare clinical case of a young woman affected by a bleeding jejunal melanoma, whose early clinical presentation was an intestinal invagination.
Resta
Giuseppe
G
Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Anestesiologiche e Radiologiche, Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica, Arcispedale S. Anna, Corso Giovecca, Ferrara 203-44100, Italy.
Anania
Gabriele
G
Messina
Federico
F
de Tullio
Damiano
D
Ferrocci
Gloria
G
Zanzi
Federico
F
Pellegrini
Davide
D
Stano
Rocco
R
Cavallesco
Giorgio
G
Azzena
Gianfranco
G
Occhionorelli
Savino
S
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D007443:Intussusception / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged