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Hematology and Oncology

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2016

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Primary Retroperitoneal Melanoma Presented In A Rare Extracutaneous Site For Malignant Melanoma, Mohamed Alsharedi, Nadim Bou Zgheib, Yousef Khelfa, Ali Raufi, Nabiha Elmsherghi, Yehuda Lebowicz Oct 2016

Primary Retroperitoneal Melanoma Presented In A Rare Extracutaneous Site For Malignant Melanoma, Mohamed Alsharedi, Nadim Bou Zgheib, Yousef Khelfa, Ali Raufi, Nabiha Elmsherghi, Yehuda Lebowicz

Hematology and Oncology

Malignant melanoma, as the name implies, is a malignant tumor of melanocytes, found in the skin, eyes, meningeal lining and the mucosal epithelium of the aero-digestive and genitourinary tracts. Malignant melanoma is typically skin malignancy, which rarely presents at extracutaneous site. Here we present a rare case of primary retroperitoneal melanoma and review the findings in comparison with other cases described in literature.