title: Diffuse anorectal melanoma; review of the current diagnostic and treatment aspects based on a case report.
abstract: 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.
authors: 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece. aris.80@hotmail.com
authors: Christos N
authors: CN
authors: Stoidis
authors: Basileios G
authors: BG
authors: Spyropoulos
authors: Evangelos P
authors: EP
authors: Misiakos
authors: Christos K
authors: CK
authors: Fountzilas
authors: Panorea P
authors: PP
authors: Paraskeva
authors: Constantine I
authors: CI
authors: Fotiadis
mesh_terms: 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