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Primary pulmonary melanoma: a report of two cases.

World journal of surgical oncology - 17 Sept 2015

Watanabe Mototsugu, Yamamoto Hiromasa, Hashida Shinsuke, Soh Junichi, Sugimoto Seiichiro, Toyooka Shinichi, Miyoshi Shinichiro

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Malignant melanoma is a refractory malignancy with a dismal prognosis. It generally arises from the skin in most cases, and cases of primary pulmonary malignant melanoma are rare and often behave aggressively. We have treated two cases of localized primary pulmonary malignant melanoma using surgical resection. Pulmonary malignant melanomas often metastasize to the brain and liver; one of our cases exhibited...

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PMID: 26376781
DOI: 10.1186/s12957-015-0695-2
PMCID: PMC4573480

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