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Vaginal Primary Malignant Melanoma : A Rare and Aggressive Tumor
Joint Authors
Terzakis, Emmanouil
Androutsopoulos, Georgios
Tsamandas, Athanasios
Decavalas, Georgios
Ioannidou, Georgia
Source
Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-6, 6 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-07-22
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Vaginal primary malignant melanoma is a rare and very aggressive tumor.
It most commonly occurs in postmenopausal women, with a mean age of 57 years.
Our patient is an 80-year-old, postmenopausal Greek woman presented with a complaint of abnormal vaginal bleeding.
On gynecologic examination there was a pigmented, raised, ulcerated, and irregular lesion 5×4.5 cm in the upper third of anterior vaginal wall.
She underwent a wide local excision of the lesion.
The histopathology revealed vaginal primary malignant melanoma with ulceration and no clear surgical margins.
She denied any additional surgical interventions and underwent to postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy.
Follow up 5 months after initial diagnosis revealed no evidence of local recurrence or distant metastasis.
The prognosis of vaginal primary malignant melanoma is very poor despite treatment modality, because most of the cases are diagnosed at advanced stage.
Particularly patients with no clear surgical margins and tumor size >3 cm needed postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Androutsopoulos, Georgios& Terzakis, Emmanouil& Ioannidou, Georgia& Tsamandas, Athanasios& Decavalas, Georgios. 2013. Vaginal Primary Malignant Melanoma : A Rare and Aggressive Tumor. Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-6.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Androutsopoulos, Georgios…[et al.]. Vaginal Primary Malignant Melanoma : A Rare and Aggressive Tumor. Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-6.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Androutsopoulos, Georgios& Terzakis, Emmanouil& Ioannidou, Georgia& Tsamandas, Athanasios& Decavalas, Georgios. Vaginal Primary Malignant Melanoma : A Rare and Aggressive Tumor. Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-448701
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-448701