Choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones

BACKGROUND: Melanomas are malignant neoplasm of melanocytic origin, commonly seen on skin and various mucous membranes. Melanomas are the commonest intraocular malignant tumour in the adults. CASE PRESENTATION: A 50-year-old female presented with complains of painless progressive swelling in right c...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Manoj, Prakash, Om, Mathews, Anitha, Nayak, Nileena, Ramachandran, Krishnankutty
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1848005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17346341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-30
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author Pandey, Manoj
Prakash, Om
Mathews, Anitha
Nayak, Nileena
Ramachandran, Krishnankutty
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Prakash, Om
Mathews, Anitha
Nayak, Nileena
Ramachandran, Krishnankutty
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description BACKGROUND: Melanomas are malignant neoplasm of melanocytic origin, commonly seen on skin and various mucous membranes. Melanomas are the commonest intraocular malignant tumour in the adults. CASE PRESENTATION: A 50-year-old female presented with complains of painless progressive swelling in right cheek region of two months duration. Examination revealed a 6 × 4 cm bony hard swelling in right zygomatic region near and below lateral canthus of right eye with loss of vision. Investigations revealed it to be a choroidal melanoma metastatising to the zygomatic bone. Patient was successfully treated by surgery. CONCLUSION: Choroidal melanoma, which commonly metastasizes to liver and lungs, never involves the lymph nodes and metastasis to facial bones is rare. Here we report a case of choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones.
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spelling pubmed-18480052007-04-07 Choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones Pandey, Manoj Prakash, Om Mathews, Anitha Nayak, Nileena Ramachandran, Krishnankutty World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Melanomas are malignant neoplasm of melanocytic origin, commonly seen on skin and various mucous membranes. Melanomas are the commonest intraocular malignant tumour in the adults. CASE PRESENTATION: A 50-year-old female presented with complains of painless progressive swelling in right cheek region of two months duration. Examination revealed a 6 × 4 cm bony hard swelling in right zygomatic region near and below lateral canthus of right eye with loss of vision. Investigations revealed it to be a choroidal melanoma metastatising to the zygomatic bone. Patient was successfully treated by surgery. CONCLUSION: Choroidal melanoma, which commonly metastasizes to liver and lungs, never involves the lymph nodes and metastasis to facial bones is rare. Here we report a case of choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones. BioMed Central 2007-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC1848005/ /pubmed/17346341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-30 Text en Copyright © 2007 Pandey et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nayak, Nileena
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title Choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones
title_full Choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones
title_fullStr Choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones
title_full_unstemmed Choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones
title_short Choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones
title_sort choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1848005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17346341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-30
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