Melanoma Metastases to the Small Intestine Mesentery, Greater Omentum and Parietal Peritoneum - Case Report

• Authors: Maciej Stryga , Marcin Janas , Piotr Szopiński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We present a case of 58-year old female patient that underwent surgery at Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Voivodeship Hospital of Traumatic Surgery in Warsaw for abdominal pain and nausea and palpable mass located in the left mesogastric region. During the surgical procedure, numerous, large nodules of the small intestine mesentery and the greater omentum were found. Histopathological examination demonstrated that they were melanoma metastases. When we confronted the reported case with available literature, we found only few similar reports.

Keywords

EN

melanoma; melanoma metastases; explorative laparotomy

• Publisher: Index Copernicus International
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 81
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 203-207

Dates

published

1 - 4 - 2009

online

14 - 5 - 2009

Contributors

author

Maciej Stryga

• Department of General and Vascular Surgery, St. Anne's Voivodeship Hospital of Traumatic Surgery, Warsaw

author

Marcin Janas

• Department of General and Vascular Surgery, St. Anne's Voivodeship Hospital of Traumatic Surgery, Warsaw

author

Piotr Szopiński

• 1 Chair and Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Warsaw Medical University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10035-009-0031-z