Abstract. The article summarizes the world literature about endoscopic diagnosis of rare disease ― primary melanoma upper gastrointestinal tract and secondary lesions of the gastrointestinal tract in its disseminated form. Analyzed data of observations of patients with melanoma from 2005 to 2015 at the N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center. The most interesting clinical case was demonstrated.
Key words: melanoma, endoscopic diagnosis.
N.A. Matvienko, E.E. Kudryavitsky, I.B. Perfilyev, Yu.P. Kuvshinov, G.V. Ungiadze
N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow
Matvienko N.A. ― clinical resident of Endoscopy department of the N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center
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