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Original Source: Multimodality imaging of melanoma metastases to the abdomen and pelvis.
Disease in the abdomen and pelvis is frequent in patients with metastatic melanoma (MM). Multidetector row computed tomography is the imaging modality of choice for diagnosis and follow-up of MM. However, positron emission tomographic scan may be used as well as other newer imaging modalities, particularly for imaging of the abdominal and pelvic metastases. The aim if this exhibit is to review the distribution and features of melanoma metastases to the abdomen and pelvis as well as the role of currently ava...
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Editorial on identifying melanomas in primary care was muddled
Newton-Bishop and Lorigan’s thinking on whether we can improve the identification of melanomas in primary care is muddled and their conclusions are lazy.1 They object to current referral rates for.....
[News] Diagnostic accuracy of smartphone applications
People who rely on smartphone applications to detect melanoma greatly risk misdiagnosis, according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh. The researchers used 188 pre-existing photographs...
Slow-growing melanomas lose structure, vary color with time
(HealthDay) -- The diameter of most slow-growing melanomas (SGMs) changes very little over time, but the lesions can become more disorganized, less structured, and change or develop new colors, accord...
Melanomas that develop resistance to vemurafenib also become addicted to the drug
Researchers in California and Switzerland have discovered that melanomas that develop resistance to the anti-cancer drug vemurafenib (marketed as Zelboraf), also develop addiction to the drug, an obse...
Gene in eye melanomas linked to good prognosis
(Washington University School of Medicine) Melanomas that develop in the eye often are fatal. Now, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they have identified a mut...
Effects of radiotherapy on uveal melanomas and adjacent tissues
Effects of radiotherapy on uveal melanomas and adjacent tissues Eye advance online publication, November 30 2012. doi:10.1038/eye.2012.249 Authors: C Groenewald, L Konstantinidis...
MDM4 is a key therapeutic target in cutaneous melanoma
Although loss-of-function p53 alterations are widespread in many tumors, melanomas typically do not harbor TP53 mutations. This report uncovers upregulation of MDM4 as a frequent trait of melanomas th...
Children With Abdominal Pain Have Poor Prognosis
Children who present to primary care with abdominal pain have a high risk of developing chronic abdominal pain and long-term functional impairment. Medscape Medical News
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Sentinel Node Biopsy is Indicated for Thin Melanomas ≥0.76 mm.
BACKGROUND: A consensus for which patients with thin melanomas (≤1 mm) should undergo sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is not established. We describe a large single institution experience with SL...
Objective: To compare the incidence of regression in first and second primary melanomas as a possible indication of an 'immunization effect'. Methods: The first and second primary melanomas of 18 pati...
BACKGROUND: 0.6-12.7% of patients with primary cutaneous melanoma will develop additional melanomas. Pathologic features of tumors in patients with multiple primary cutaneous melanomas have not been w...
Abstract UV radiation is a major factor in melanoma genesis, but non-UV linked factors are also operational, since primary malignant melanomas can emerge in body sites that never see the sun. The scar...
Background Amelanotic melanomas remain challenging to diagnose. Objective To analyze and describe the clinical and dermoscopic characteristics of amelanotic melanomas that are not of the nodular...
