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A case report of primary malignant melanoma of male urethra with distinct appearance in multiple regions

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A 66-year-old man presented with macrohematuria. Cystoscope examination found a 5 mm nodular tumor at external urethral orifice and multiple papillary tumors at fossa navicularis of urethra; those are non-black colored. Transurethral resection of the urethra tumor was performed, and pathologically diagnosed as malignant melanoma. Image examinations showed no lymphadenopathy and metastasis. Accordingly, total penectomy was conducted to remove the remaining tumors, resulting in surgically curative resection. After the operation, monthly interferon-β injection into inguinal region has been administered as adjuvant therapy, resulting in no recurrence at 6 months after penectomy.

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  1. Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan

    Dai Takamatsu, Masaki Shiota, Masaaki Sugimoto, Tomoharu Uozumi, Ario Takeuchi, Ryosuke Takahashi, Katsunori Tatsugami, Akira Yokomizo & Masatoshi Eto

  2. Department of Anatomic Pathology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Masaaki Sugimoto & Yoshinao Oda

  3. Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Hiroshi Uchi & Masutaka Furue

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Takamatsu, D., Shiota, M., Sugimoto, M. et al. A case report of primary malignant melanoma of male urethra with distinct appearance in multiple regions. Int Canc Conf J 5, 174–177 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13691-016-0252-z

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