Metastatic gastric melanoma: a challenging diagnosis
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2010Yazar
Saka, Bulent
Tascioglu, Cemil
Gulluoglu, Mine
Colak, Yasar
Bahat, Gulistan
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Background. The stomach is regarded as a rare site for metastasis. When a gastric mass is observed macroscopically, the presumed diagnosis is usually a primary gastric carcinoma. However, the stomach may be involved in metastatic malignant melanoma. Besides a possible macroscopical misdiagnosis, metastatic gastric melanoma may also be misdiagnosed microscopically as adenocarcinoma due to its protean histological characteristics. These features make metastatic gastric melanoma a challenging diagnosis in some cases.
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