Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Diffuse anorectal melanoma; review of the current diagnostic and treatment aspects based on a case report | World Journal of Surgical Oncology BioMed Central Open Access Diffuse anorectal melanoma review of the current diagnostic and treatment aspects based on a case report Christos N Stoidis1 Basileios G Spyropoulos1 Evangelos P Misiakos 1 Christos K Fountzilas2 Panorea P Paraskeva3 and Constantine I Fotiadis1 Address 13rd Department of Surgery University of Athens Medical School Attikon University Hospital Athens Greece - Department of Internal Medicine Athens Navy Hospital Athens Greece and 32nd Department of Propedeutic Surgery University of Athens Medical School Laikon General Hospital Athens Greece Email Christos N Stoidis - Basileios G Spyropoulos - Evangelos P Misiakos - misiakos@ Christos K Fountzilas - chrfountzilas@ Panorea P Paraskeva - noraparaskeva@ Constantine I Fotiadis - costfot@ Corresponding author Published II August 2009 Received 20 April 2009 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7 64 doi 1477-7819-7-64 Accepted 11 August 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 64 2009 Stoidis 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 Primary anorectal melanoma is a rare and aggressive disease. Patients commonly complain for changes in bowel habits and rectal bleeding and proctoscopically they mostly appear as non pigmented or lightly pigmented polypoid lesions. Such a lesion should always raise a high index of suspicion in any gastroenterologist or surgeon to prompt surgery since early radical excision is the only treatment option. Herein we report a case of a 57-year-old man with a diffuse anal canal melanoma and give reference to the current diagnostic and treatment options. .
