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Case Reports in Surgery
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 693547, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/693547
Case Report
Primary Malignant Melanoma of the Gallbladder: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
1Department of General Surgery, Merkez Efendi State Hospital, 35630 Manisa, Turkey
2Department of General Surgery, Izmir University, Izmir, Turkey
3Department of Pathology, Merkez Efendi State Hospital, Manisa, Turkey
Received 11 August 2012; Accepted 25 September 2012
Academic Editors: D. Mantas, O. Olsha, M. Picchio, and M. Rangarajan
Copyright © 2012 Mehmet Fatih Haskaraca et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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