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ArticleBMJ case reports2020

Primary malignant melanoma of the stomach: a rare entity.

Pradeep Zechariah, Suraj Surendran, Vijay Abraham, Inian Samarasam

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. A Curious Case of Primary Gastric Mucosal Melanoma.The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pradeep ZechariahDepartment of General Surgery, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6081-6683
Suraj SurendranDepartment of General Surgery Unit III and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India suraj.cmc@cmcvellore.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4836-9432
Vijay AbrahamDepartment of General Surgery Unit III and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Inian SamarasamDepartment of General Surgery Unit III and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Christian Medical College, Vellore · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 54-year-old man presented with easy fatiguability, dyspnoea on exertion and dyspeptic symptoms. On evaluation, he was found to have an ulcero-proliferative growth in the gastric fundus, the biopsy of which was malignant melanoma of the stomach. Further evaluation with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (18F-FDG PET-CT) scan showed operable disease with no focus of disease elsewhere. He was diagnosed as primary gastric melanoma and underwent radical total gastrectomy with adequate margins. His postoperative period was uneventful. Further adjuvant therapy was refused by the patient. At 6-month follow-up, an 18F-FDG PET-CT scan was done, which showed no evidence of disease. On follow-up at 1-year, he was alive and asymptomatic.

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MelanomaStomach NeoplasmsBiopsyDiagnosis, DifferentialDyspepsiaDyspneaFatigueFluorodeoxyglucose F18GastrectomyGastroscopyHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingPositron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyRadiopharmaceuticalsFluorodeoxyglucose F18Radiopharmaceuticalsgastric cancergastrointestinal surgerymalignant disease and immunosuppressionpathologystomach and duodenum

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PMID32912884
PMCPMC7482448
OpenAlexW3084472871

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