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Intra-ocular melanoma metastatic to an axillary lymph node: A case report

BACKGROUND: Unusual metastatic presentation of intra-ocular melanoma. STUDY DESIGN: Case report. DISCUSSION: Extra-regional lymphatic spread of intra-ocular melanoma has not been reported previously in the literature. The usual pattern of metastasis for intra-ocular melanoma is hematogenous. There a...

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Autores principales: Anne, Nirupama, Pallapothu, Ratnakishore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21619584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-61
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description BACKGROUND: Unusual metastatic presentation of intra-ocular melanoma. STUDY DESIGN: Case report. DISCUSSION: Extra-regional lymphatic spread of intra-ocular melanoma has not been reported previously in the literature. The usual pattern of metastasis for intra-ocular melanoma is hematogenous. There are few reports of regional spread to the maxillofacial bones. We report an interesting case of a 51 year old female with prior history of right eye melanoma, now presenting with metastasis to the left axilla, which is an extra-regional nodal basin. CONCLUSION: In female patients presenting with an isolated axillary mass, with a negative breast work up and known prior history of melanoma, the differential diagnosis should include possible metastatic melanoma. Core biopsy will confirm the diagnosis and tailor subsequent management.
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spelling pubmed-31177372011-06-18 Intra-ocular melanoma metastatic to an axillary lymph node: A case report Anne, Nirupama Pallapothu, Ratnakishore World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Unusual metastatic presentation of intra-ocular melanoma. STUDY DESIGN: Case report. DISCUSSION: Extra-regional lymphatic spread of intra-ocular melanoma has not been reported previously in the literature. The usual pattern of metastasis for intra-ocular melanoma is hematogenous. There are few reports of regional spread to the maxillofacial bones. We report an interesting case of a 51 year old female with prior history of right eye melanoma, now presenting with metastasis to the left axilla, which is an extra-regional nodal basin. CONCLUSION: In female patients presenting with an isolated axillary mass, with a negative breast work up and known prior history of melanoma, the differential diagnosis should include possible metastatic melanoma. Core biopsy will confirm the diagnosis and tailor subsequent management. BioMed Central 2011-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3117737/ /pubmed/21619584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-61 Text en Copyright ©2011 Anne and Pallapothu; 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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title Intra-ocular melanoma metastatic to an axillary lymph node: A case report
title_full Intra-ocular melanoma metastatic to an axillary lymph node: A case report
title_fullStr Intra-ocular melanoma metastatic to an axillary lymph node: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Intra-ocular melanoma metastatic to an axillary lymph node: A case report
title_short Intra-ocular melanoma metastatic to an axillary lymph node: A case report
title_sort intra-ocular melanoma metastatic to an axillary lymph node: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21619584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-61
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