Melanoma of the anal canal
Author:
- J. L. BerkleyJBJ. L. Berkley
- 1 April 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 3 (2) , 159-160
Abstract
Tases were present in this case as in all other reported fatal cases. Pigmented lesions of the anal canal should arouse suspicion of a melanoma. Biopsy should be done only with the cold knife. The importance of routine pathologic study of all anorectal tissue removed at operations cannot be overemphasized. The proper treatment of anorectal melanoma is radical abdominoperineal resection. Prophylactic ilioinguinal node dissection bilaterally or aorto-ilio-pelvic node dissection still remain equivocal procedures. Read at the meeting of the Pennsylvania Proctologic Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1959. © The ASCRS 1960...Keywords
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- END RESULTS IN THE TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT MELANOMAAnnals of Surgery, 1952