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Study data from Nihon University, Medical Department update knowledge of melanoma

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 3rd, 2008

"A case of primary urethral malignant melanoma of a 69-year-old Japanese woman is presented. A hemorrhagic tumor measuring 1 cm in diameter was diagnosed by the stamp method," investigators in Tokyo, Japan report.

"Clinically, the primary lesion was a T4 tumor infiltrating to the bladder neck, vagina, and vulva. Computed tomography did not detect any inguinal lymph node swelling or metastases to other sites. We selected radical extirpation, including cystectomy, ureterostomy, and bilateral inguinal and pelvic lymph node dissection," wrote T. Yoshizawa and colleagues, Nihon University, Medical Department.

The researchers concluded: "Although she...

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