Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review

Malignant melanoma can metastasize to virtually any organ of the body. The aggressiveness is determined by the primary site, depth of dermal invasion, presence or absence of ulceration, lymphovascular infiltration and regional lymph node involvement. We report a case of a pregnant woman with a previ...

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Autores principales: Lakshminarayana, Pradeep, Danson, Sarah, Suvarna, Kim, Hancock, Barry
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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/PMC1878489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17501986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-21
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author Lakshminarayana, Pradeep
Danson, Sarah
Suvarna, Kim
Hancock, Barry
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Danson, Sarah
Suvarna, Kim
Hancock, Barry
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description Malignant melanoma can metastasize to virtually any organ of the body. The aggressiveness is determined by the primary site, depth of dermal invasion, presence or absence of ulceration, lymphovascular infiltration and regional lymph node involvement. We report a case of a pregnant woman with a previous history of stage 3 melanoma who presented with cardiac metastasis and placental melanoma infiltration. A review of literature on cardiac and placental involvement of melanoma is also provided.
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spelling pubmed-18784892007-05-29 Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review Lakshminarayana, Pradeep Danson, Sarah Suvarna, Kim Hancock, Barry J Med Case Reports Case Report Malignant melanoma can metastasize to virtually any organ of the body. The aggressiveness is determined by the primary site, depth of dermal invasion, presence or absence of ulceration, lymphovascular infiltration and regional lymph node involvement. We report a case of a pregnant woman with a previous history of stage 3 melanoma who presented with cardiac metastasis and placental melanoma infiltration. A review of literature on cardiac and placental involvement of melanoma is also provided. BioMed Central 2007-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC1878489/ /pubmed/17501986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-21 Text en Copyright © 2007 Lakshminarayana 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Lakshminarayana, Pradeep
Danson, Sarah
Suvarna, Kim
Hancock, Barry
Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review
title Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review
title_full Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review
title_short Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review
title_sort atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1878489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17501986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-21
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