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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;63:1461-1463
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Report

Surgical Therapy of Primary Malignant Melanoma of the Esophagus

Farzin Adili, MD, Stefan P. Mönig, MD

Department of Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Albertus-Magnus University, Cologne, Germany

Accepted for publication December 2, 1996.

Primary malignantmelanoma of the esophagus is an extremely rare tumor. In the absence of prospectively sampled data in the literature, the following case report and review of the literature indicate that surgical resection of the priary tumor and solitary metastases provides the longest survival times and, to date, is the treatment of choice.






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