Objective:To summarize experiences on clinical features,diagnosis and treatment of anorectal malignant melanoma (AMM). Methods:The clinicopathologic data of 26 patients with AMM admitted from 1977 to 2005 in Jiangsu Provincial Cancer Hospital were analyzed retrospectively. Results:The most common complaints of AMM patients were hematochezia (88.5%),anus pain or discomfort (53.8%),anus mass (26.9%) and so on.The distances from the tumor to anal verge of all the patients were no more than 5cm.The misdiagnosis rate was 846%.The rate of definite pathologic diagnosis before surgery was 44%.The positive rates of immunohistochemical staining results of HMB45,S100 and Vimentin were 85.7%(6/7),100%(7/7),833%(5/6),respectively.The overall 1,3,5year survival were 12,4,3 cases,respectively. Conclusions:AMM is a rare disease with poor prognosis.And it tends to be misdiagnosed.Hematochezia is the most common symptom.Digital rectal examination is very important to the diagnosis of AMM.Immunohistochemical staining is helpful to pathologic diagnosis of AMM.