Melanoma primario del esófago tratado con esofagectomía: Casos clínicos / Esophageal melanoma: Report of two cases
Butte, Jean M; Visscher, Álvaro; De La Fuente, Hernán; Meneses, Manuel; Carrasco, Ana María; Amaral, Horacio; Waugh, Enrique.
Rev. méd. Chile
; 138(1): 77-81, ene. 2010. ilus
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| LILACS | ID: lil-542051
Esophageal melanomas correspond to 0.1 to 0.2 percent of esophageal tumors. We report two patients with the disease. The first patient is a 51 year-old woman pre-sentingwith dysphagia and weight loss. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a polypoid ulcerated lesion in the middle third of the esophagus. The pathological study ofthe biopsy disclosed a malignant melanoma. The patient was subjected to an esophagectomy with a satisfactory postoperative evolution. Four months later, liver metastases were detected and the patient died eleven months after the operation. The second patient is a 59 year-old mole that consulted by dysphagia. An endoscopy showed a pigmented esophageal lesion whose pathological diagnosis was a malignant melanoma. The patient was subjected to an esophagectomy and sixteen months after surgery there was no evidence of relapse.
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