Partial hepatectomy for primary hepatic melanoma: a report of two cases and review of the literature

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Chengwu Zhang¹  Defei Hong¹  Jie Liu¹  Weiding Wu¹  Zhiming Hu¹  Yuhua Zhang¹ 

[1] The hepatobiliary, Pancreatic and Minimal Invasive Surgery Department, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, 158# Shangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310014, China

关键词: Prognosis;    Surgery;    Diagnosis;    Primary hepatic melanoma;   

Others  :  1147154
DOI  :  10.1186/1477-7819-12-362

 received in 2014-05-26, accepted in 2014-11-18,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Malignant melanoma is an extremely aggressive cancer arising from melanocytes, associated with the development of metastases in up to 20% of patients. Although the liver is a frequent metastatic site of malignant melanoma, primary hepatic melanoma (PHM) is rare. The treatment of PHM is controversial, and the prognosis for affected patients remains poor. We present two PHM patients who underwent partial hepatectomy at our institution and review the clinical and pathological data from these cases. Our results suggest that it is difficult to make a preoperative diagnosis of PHM without pathological results. For patients with resectable PHM, surgical resection is a potentially curative treatment.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Zhang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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