Primary Malignant Melanoma of the Mediastinum: Radiologic and Pathologic Correlation in Two Case

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Primary malignant melanoma of the anterior mediastinum is extremely rare, accounting for 0.1-0.5% of all primary malignant neoplasms. These tumors may be mistakenly diagnosed as lymphomas, thymic carcinomas and malignant germ-cell tumors of the mediastinum. We describe two cases of primary malignant melanomas of the anterior mediastinum and report their CT and pathology findings.

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