[
    {
        "id": "osp-11353",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Round Cell Vaginal Malignant Melanoma: A rare entity",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Chauhan",
                "given": "Neena"
            },
            {
                "family": "Gaur",
                "given": "Dushyant S."
            },
            {
                "family": "P.",
                "given": "Ved"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/round-cell-vaginal-malignant-melanoma-a-rare-entity",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2025
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal",
        "volume": "12",
        "issue": "4",
        "page": "508-511",
        "DOI": "10.18295/2075-0528.1414",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2075-051X",
        "abstract": "Malignant melanoma is predominantly a skin disease but in rare instances it may occur at other sites. A vaginal melanoma is a rare clinical entity and the round cell type is an uncommon variant. Although the present case was clinically diagnosed as a urethral caruncle, on histopathological examination and immunostaining it was diagnosed as a round cell pigmented malignant melanoma. The patient refused radical surgery and was given a full course radiotherapy treatment but died a year later. Malignant vaginal melanoma carries a very poor prognosis even when lesion is localised at the time of presentation. The five-year survival rate ranges from 10–20% with the prognosis being influenced by tumour size. A tumour size ≥3cm has a poor prognosis. Age, mitotic count, stage, and location of the lesion do not influence survival rates."
    }
]