Pancreatic malignant melanoma with occult primary lesion. A case report

A Bianca; N Carboni; V Di Carlo; M Falleni; S Ferrero; C Liverani; C Staudacher; G Turra; D Vergani; A Zerbi

Pancreatic malignant melanoma with occult primary lesion. A case report

Pathologica. 1992 Jul-Aug;84(1092):531-7.

Authors

A Bianca¹, N Carboni, V Di Carlo, M Falleni, S Ferrero, C Liverani, C Staudacher, G Turra, D Vergani, A Zerbi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, State University of Milan, Italy.

PMID: 1491895

Abstract

A case of unusual location of a M.M. in the head of pancreas is described. Evidence of a primary lesion was not achieved, still we incline to retain this case as a metastatic malignant melanoma with occult primary location.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / diagnosis
Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / etiology
Humans
Male
Melanoma / complications
Melanoma / pathology
Melanoma / secondary*
Middle Aged
Neoplasms, Unknown Primary*
Pancreatic Neoplasms / complications
Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology
Pancreatic Neoplasms / secondary*