Case Report: Primary Gastric Melanoma in a Patient with Dermatomyositis

Overview

Journal Am J Med Sci

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2008 Sep 17

PMID 18794626

Citations 11

Authors

Christine Castro

Yaqoot Khan

Michael Awasum

Kristina Belostocki

Gary Rosenblum

Elise Belilos

Steven Carsons

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Abstract

We present the first reported case of a patient with dermatomyositis found to have primary gastric melanoma. The possibility of primary gastric melanoma occurring before, concurrently or after the onset of dermatomyositis is the subject of this case report.

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