Year 2022 / Volume 114 / Number 11
Letter
Primary intestinal melanoma?

695-696

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8944/2022

Angie Gómez-Uranga, Pedro Jesús Esteve-Atiénzar, Antonio López-Jiménez, Vicente Giner-Galvañ,

Abstract
The vast majority of malignant melanomas in the small intestine are metastasis of cutaneous tumors. Few cases have been published on primary melanomas in this location, some authors consider that they are always metastatic and that the primary tumor has regressed. In this letter, we present the case of a 77-year-old woman with a history of cutaneous melanoma excision 38 years ago who was diagnosed with ileal melanoma in the absence of other lesions during the study of iron deficiency anemia, and we discuss about the origin of this type of neoplasms.
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Publication history

Received: 21/05/2022

Accepted: 23/06/2022

Online First: 30/06/2022

Published: 07/11/2022

Article Online First time: 40 days

Article editing time: 170 days


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