Unusual thoracic manifestation of metastatic malignant melanoma

Massive pleural effusion due to metastatic malignant melanoma is rare. We report a case of bilateral (massive on left side) pleural effusion as a metastatic manifestation of cutaneous malignant melanoma. In our case, successful outcome of pleurodesis with vincristine is significant as this agent is...

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Autores principales: Mohan, K. Manu, Gowrinath, K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20616944
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.63615
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description Massive pleural effusion due to metastatic malignant melanoma is rare. We report a case of bilateral (massive on left side) pleural effusion as a metastatic manifestation of cutaneous malignant melanoma. In our case, successful outcome of pleurodesis with vincristine is significant as this agent is rarely used.
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spelling pubmed-28934342010-07-08 Unusual thoracic manifestation of metastatic malignant melanoma Mohan, K. Manu Gowrinath, K. Lung India Case Report Massive pleural effusion due to metastatic malignant melanoma is rare. We report a case of bilateral (massive on left side) pleural effusion as a metastatic manifestation of cutaneous malignant melanoma. In our case, successful outcome of pleurodesis with vincristine is significant as this agent is rarely used. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2893434/ /pubmed/20616944 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.63615 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Unusual thoracic manifestation of metastatic malignant melanoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893434/
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