A patient presenting with acute abdomen due to metastatic small bowel melanoma: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Christina D Bali²  Alexandra Papoudou-Bai¹  Rodamanthos Doumos²  Thomas Messinis²  Georgios D Lianos² 

[1] Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Ioannina, St Niarchou Av., Ioannina 45110, Greece;Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Ioannina, St Niarchou Av. Ioannina, 45110, Greece

关键词: Perforation;    Metastasis;    Melanoma;    Acute abdomen;   

Others  :  825568
DOI  :  10.1186/1752-1947-7-216

 received in 2013-01-24, accepted in 2013-07-11,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Introduction

Malignant tumors of the small bowel are rare. Melanoma of the small intestine is in most cases metastatic from a primary skin lesion. Perforation of small bowel melanoma is an extremely rare entity. To the best of our knowledge this is the fifth case published to date.

Case presentation

We report a rare case of acute abdomen due to perforated metastatic small bowel melanoma in a 38-year-old Caucasian man.

Conclusions

In the majority of cases small bowel melanoma represents metastasis from cutaneous sites. Although rare, the possibility of abdominal metastatic melanoma presenting with the clinical picture of acute abdomen must be always considered by the operating surgeon in patients with a history of primary cutaneous malignant lesion.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Lianos et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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