Resection of Cardiac metastasis of malignant melanoma.
10.4070/kcj.2000.30.9.1170
- Author:
Kyoung Soo LEE
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Malignant melanoma;
Cardiac mass;
Resection
- MeSH:
Biopsy;
Echocardiography, Transesophageal;
Estrogens, Conjugated (USP);
Heart;
Heart Failure;
Heart Ventricles;
Humans;
Lymph Nodes;
Melanoma*;
Neoplasm Metastasis*
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
2000;30(9):1170-1174
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Malignant melanoma is unique in its propensity to metastasize to the heart with frequencies ranging from 50% to 71%. We report a case of a resection of large intracavitary malignant melanoma causing obstruction of the right ventricular inflow and outflow tract of the heart. A 49-year-old-woman presented clinical symptoms and signs of life-threatening congestive right heart failure. Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography revealed a large intracavitary mass occupying the entire right ventricle. Inguinal lymph node biopsy demonstrated metastatic melanoma. The cardiac main mass was palliatively resected and demonstrated to be a metastatic melanoma. The patient improved symptomatically about 60 days after the operation.
