Visceral metastases of melanoma-single institution experience an analysis of 15 cases.
Authors analysed 15 cases with visceral metastasis of melanoma. In eight cases the primary was unknown but in seven cases the data about primary was known. From 15 patients 10 were male and 5 female. All metastases were in abdominal cavity (liver-3, abdominal lymph nodes-4. stomach-2, bowel-4, omentum-1, spleen-1, oesophagus-1, adrenal-2 cases. In one case metastatic deposit was in brain and in one case i the vertebral body. In 6 cases visceral metastases were in more than one location.
Opric
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Institut for Pathology, Medical Faculty Beograd.
Bilanovic
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Granic
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Randjelovic
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Milinic
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Opric
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Babic
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Petrovic
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D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014781:Viscera