TY - JOUR
T1 - Amelanotic malignant melanoma of the cervical oesophagus
AU - Ramaswamy, Balakrishnan
AU - Bhandarkar, Ajay M.
AU - Venkitachalam, Shruti
AU - Trivedi, Shivangi
PY - 2014/4/12
Y1 - 2014/4/12
N2 - We report the case of a young woman who presented with progressive dysphagia and swelling in the anterior aspect of the neck of short duration. On evaluation, she was diagnosed with amelanotic malignant melanoma of the cervical oesophagus. She underwent total laryngopharyngo-oesophagectomy with gastric transposition with bilateral modi fied radical neck dissection with feeding jejunostomy and a permanent tracheostomy with postoperative combined chemoradiation therapy. However, in spite of aggressive treatment, the patient expired 8 months after initial presentation with distant metastasis.
AB - We report the case of a young woman who presented with progressive dysphagia and swelling in the anterior aspect of the neck of short duration. On evaluation, she was diagnosed with amelanotic malignant melanoma of the cervical oesophagus. She underwent total laryngopharyngo-oesophagectomy with gastric transposition with bilateral modi fied radical neck dissection with feeding jejunostomy and a permanent tracheostomy with postoperative combined chemoradiation therapy. However, in spite of aggressive treatment, the patient expired 8 months after initial presentation with distant metastasis.
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U2 - 10.1136/bcr-2014-204182
DO - 10.1136/bcr-2014-204182
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84899641121
SN - 1757-790X
JO - BMJ Case Reports
JF - BMJ Case Reports
ER -