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Malignant Melanoma of Anorectum: Two Case Reports

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ANNALS OF COLOPROCTOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 65-70

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KOREAN SOC COLOPROCTOLOGY
DOI: 10.3393/ac.2020.01.07.1

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Melanoma; Anorectal; Abdominoperineal resection; Ultralow anterior resection; Wide local resection

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Malignant melanoma of the anorectum is a rare and poor-prognosis disorder. We report two female patients who had received previous surgeries before visiting our center after being diagnosed with this condition.
Malignant melanoma of the anorectum is a rare disorder. Patients often present with local symptoms similar to benign diseases. The prognosis is very poor, and almost all patients die because of metastases. We report 2 female patients with unremarkable histories. Both of them received previous operations before visiting our center after they were diagnosed with anorectal malignant melanoma. One case underwent abdominoperineal resection and postoperative chemotherapy. The other had been treated with ultralow anterior resection followed by immunotherapy.

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