PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mahapatra, Bikash Ranjan
AU  - Muraleedharan, Anupam
AU  - Das Majumdar, Saroj Kumar
AU  - Adhya, Amit Kumar
TI  - Metastatic primary gastric melanoma: a rare clinical presentation and a review of literature
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2022-249312
DP  - 2022 Jul 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e249312
VI  - 15
IP  - 7
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/15/7/e249312.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/15/7/e249312.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2022 Jul 01; 15
AB  - Primary gastric melanoma is a rare clinical finding. It presents with upper gastrointestinal symptoms like abdominal pain, weight loss and melaena. It is often difficult to differentiate a primary gastric melanoma from primary cutaneous melanoma with gastric metastasis. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and biopsy of the lesion for histopathology and immunohistochemistry help to reach a definite diagnosis. We report a case of primary gastric melanoma with metastases to the liver and bone. The patient was treated with palliative radiotherapy, palliative chemotherapy and a bone-stabilising agent.