Skeletal muscle metastasis from malignant melanoma: a case report and review of the literature
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Skeletal muscle metastasis from malignant melanoma: a case report and review of the literature
Malignant melanoma can spread to any organ. The most common sites of metastasis are skin, subcutaneous tissue and lymph nodes, followed by lung, liver and brain. Skeletal muscle metastases from melanoma are rare and only reported sporadically in literature. We report a case of a 31 year old male with multiple intramuscular metastases from malignant
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Clinical Pathology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2331-2734,2331-2726
DOI: 10.5430/crcp.v2n3p1