Three Different Presentations of Metastatic Gastric Melanoma

Abstract

Melanoma is the most common metastatic tumor of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and its diagnosis is rare during life since its symptoms are non-specific. The endoscopic gastric metastases appearance is heterogenous with no typical pattern. We report a patient who presented three different morphologies of metastatic gastric melanoma although the patient remained asymptomatic. This finding shows the importance of early upper digestive endoscopy in patients diagnosed with melanoma even in the absence of gastrointestinal symptoms