TY  - JOUR
T1  - A case of malignant melonoma presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
AU  - Altun, Gulsah
AU  - Önmez, Attila
AU  - Öneç, Kürşad
AU  - Kurtoğlu, Burak
AU  - Torun, Serkan
AU  - Eşbah, Onur
PY  - 2019
DA  - December
Y2  - 2019
JF  - Journal of Human Rhythm
PB  - Ramazan AKDEMİR
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-455X
SP  - 339
EP  - 343
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
LA  - en
AB  - Malignant melanoma can metastasize to the gastrointestinaltract as it can metastasize to many parts of the body. Small bowel is the mostcommon involvement in gastrointestinal tract, while gastric involvement israre. A 82-year-old male patient who presented to the emergency department withcomplaints of hematemesis and melena had a large number of black polypoidmasses in the gastric corpus and antrum in his gastroscopic examination. And the result of the biopsy takenfrom that part, was malignant melanoma. In this way, it is very rare that apatient who is not known to have malignant melanoma, presents with uppergastrointestinal bleeding.
KW  - gastric metastasis
KW  - Malignant melanoma
KW  - gastrointestinal bleeding
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/johr/issue//620503
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/896550
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