Publications by authors named "M van Cleemput"
Background: Metastatic melanoma of the small intestine is relatively common, and among affected patients, the proportion with involvement of the small intestine ranges from 35% to 70%. Small intestinal perforation as a primary manifestation of metastatic melanoma is rare. We present the exceptional case of a perforation at the jejunojejunostomy after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass caused by metastatic melanoma.
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- Extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma (EES) is a rare type of cancer usually seen in younger people, but can also occur in older patients.
- A 52-year-old woman was diagnosed with EES, which looked like another kind of cancer called adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon.
- Doctors couldn't see the tumor using special scans, but they figured out what it was through specific tests that showed certain markers for EES.