title: [Unusual tumor of the stomach].
abstract: Stomach melanomas are exceptional and often secondary to cutaneous tumors. Their symptomatology is not specific. We report the case of a 66-year-old woman, hospitalized with a three month history of epigastric pain and weight loss. Gastroscopy had revealed a polyp of the gastric mucosa. Histopathologic examination confirmed the diagnosis of a gastric infiltration by a melanoma. At exploration, there were lung, liver and bone metastasis and no cutaneous melanoma. The diagnosis of polymetastasis from a melanoma without primitive was kept. The patient died three months later.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'aAatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, CHU Habib-Bourguiba, Route El-Ain Km 0.5, C.P 3029 Sfax, Tunisie.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ellouze
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khabir
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ayadi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Makni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amouri
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Frikha
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sellami-Boudawara
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*