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Anorectal melanoma in northern Pakistan.
Melanoma of the anorectum is a rare malignancy. At Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), 11 cases were diagnosed over a 10 year period (1981-1990) constituting 14.2% of all primary malignant melanomas. The anorectum was the commonest site for noncutaneous melanomas (45.8%). The age group commonly affected was the fifth to seventh decade (72.7%). Most of the tumours were extensive involvin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.301.6743.124-c