tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Morphologically and immunohistochemically undifferentiated gastric neoplasia in a patient with multiple metastatic malignant melanomas: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Morphologically and immunohistochemically undifferentiated gastric neoplasia in a patient with multiple metastatic malignant melanomas: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Morphologically and immunohistochemically undifferentiated gastric neoplasia in a patient with multiple metastatic malignant melanomas a case report Federico Alghisi1 Pietro Crispino2 Andrea Cocco1 Antonio G Richetta2 Francesco Nardi3 Paolo Paoluzi1 and Danilo Badiali 1 Address Gastroenterology Unit Department of Clinical Sciences Policlinico Umberto I University La Sapienza Viale del Policlinico 00161 Rome Italy 2Department of Dermatology University La Sapienza Rome Italy and 3Department of Pathology University La Sapienza Rome Italy Email Federico Alghisi - federicoalghisi@ Pietro Crispino - picrispino@ Andrea Cocco - acocco@ Antonio G Richetta - arichetta@ Francesco Nardi - fnardi@ Paolo Paoluzi - ppaoluzi@ Danilo Badiali - Corresponding author Published 30 April 2008 Received 29 August 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 134 doi 1752-1947-2-134 Accepted 30 April 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 134 2008 Alghisi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Malignant melanoma is a neoplasia which frequently involves the gastrointestinal tract GIT . GIT metastases are difficult to diagnose because they often recur many years after treatment of the primary cutaneous lesion and also manifest clinically at an advanced stage of the neoplasia. Furthermore GIT metastases can appear in various morphological forms and therefore immunohistochemistry is often useful in distinguishing between a malignant melanoma and other malignancies. Case presentation We report the case of a 60-year-old .