Postoperative radiation for primary melanoma of the cervical spinal cord in a pregnant patient: A case report & review of the literature

Only 1% of melanomas present with isolated involvement of the central nervous system. Primary melanoma of the spinal cord is especially rare. There are only a handful of cases reported and only one reported during pregnancy. The patient was a 27-year-old female who presented with 16 weeks of neck pa...

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Main Authors: Samantha Stubbs, BS, Haris Vakil, BS, Gary D. Lewis, MD, Sarah A. Westergaard, MD, Gerald A. Campbell, MD, PhD, Todd A. Swanson, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751918301014