tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Delayed malignant melanoma recurrence simulating primary ovarian cancer: Case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Delayed malignant melanoma recurrence simulating primary ovarian cancer: Case report | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Case report Delayed malignant melanoma recurrence simulating primary ovarian cancer Case report Anastasios Boutis 1 2 Rosalia Valeri3 Ippokratis Korantzis1 Dimitrios Valoukas4 loannis Andronikidis1 5 and Charalambos Andreadis1 Address 13rd Department of Clinical Oncology Theagenion Cancer Hospital Thessaloniki Greece 2Department of Oncology-Chemotherapy 2nd IKA General Hospital Thessaloniki Greece 3Department of Cytopathology Theagenion Cancer Hospital Thessaloniki Greece 41st Department of Clinical Oncology Theagenion Cancer Hospital Thessaloniki Greece and 5Department of Radiotherapy AHEPA University General Hospital Thessaloniki Greece Email Anastasios Boutis - tboutis@ Rosalia Valeri - rosaliavaleri@ Ippokratis Korantzis - korangr@ Dimitrios Valoukas - valouk@ loannis Andronikidis - yandron@ Charalambos Andreadis - elkageba@ Corresponding author Published 20 November 2008 Received 3 July 2008 . IIOZ U77 7010 z Accepted 20 November 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 124 doi 1477-7819-6-124 This article is available from http content 6 1 124 2008 Boutis 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_ Background Metastatic involvement of the ovary from malignant melanoma is uncommon and presents a diagnostic challenge. Most cases are associated with disseminated disease and carry a dismal prognosis. Delayed ovarian recurrences from melanoma may mimic primary ovarian cancer and lead to aggressive cytoreductive procedures. Case presentation A case