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Table 3 Review of the literature of CNS amelanotic melanoma

From: Intracranial amelanotic melanoma: a case report with literature review

Author

Year

Nb

Primary/metastatic a

Diagnosis

Other b

Schulz et al. [6]

2012

1

Primary

Malignant amelanotic melanomas

(in German)

Combined multiple intracranial and intraspinal primary malignant amelanotic melanomas

Cemil et al. [7]

2008

1

Metastatic

Amelanotic melanoma

-

Karakis et al. [8]

2007

1

Metastatic

Amelanotic melanoma

-

Jacob et al. [9]

2006

1

-

Amelanotic melanoma?

-

Li et al. [10]

2004

1

-

Amelanotic melanoma?

(in Chinese)

Ogawa et al. [11]

2003

1

Metastatic

Amelanotic melanoma

-

Shields et al. [12]

2002

1

Metastatic

Amelanotic melanoma

-

Isiklar et al. [13]

1995

16

Metastatic

Amelanotic melanoma

-

Schadendorf et al. [14]

1993

1

-

Amelanotic malignant melanoma

-

Takahashi et al. [15]

1990

1

Metastatic

Amelanotic melanoma

(in Japanase)

Krüger et al. [16]

1987

1

Metastatic

Amelanotic melanoma

Associated with a congenital nevus of Ota

Sunada et al. [17]

1986

1

Unknown origin

Amelanotic melanoma

(in Japanase)

Out of review of primary uveal melanoma 2365 patients

Wagner et al. [18]

1981

1

-

Amelanotic melanoma

Amelanotic melanoma of the lung and brain

Schuknecht et al. [5]

1990

2

Primary

Meningeal amelanotic malignant melanoma

-

  1. CNS, central nervous system, the involved cases are all of the CNS, either intracranial or intraspinal; Nb, number of reported cases. aSome cases have no clear evidence to be defined as primary or metastatic tumor; bliterature in languages other than English is noted.