Diffuse anorectal melanoma; review of the current diagnostic and treatment aspects based on a case report.
Primary anorectal melanoma is a rare and aggressive disease. Patients commonly complain for changes in bowel habits and rectal bleeding, and proctoscopically they mostly appear as non pigmented or lightly pigmented polypoid lesions. Such a lesion should always raise a high index of suspicion in any gastroenterologist or surgeon to prompt surgery, since early radical excision is the only treatment option.Herein, we report a case of a 57-year-old man with a diffuse anal canal melanoma and give reference to the current diagnostic and treatment options.
Stoidis
Christos N
CN
3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece. aris.80@hotmail.com
Spyropoulos
Basileios G
BG
Misiakos
Evangelos P
EP
Fountzilas
Christos K
CK
Paraskeva
Panorea P
PP
Fotiadis
Constantine I
CI
D001005:Anus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy