Malignant Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting as Cardiac Metastasis

Malignant melanoma has a very high propensity to metastasize to the heart. However, melanoma may sometimes present as a metastatic lesion in the absence of a primary lesion, which are called melanomas of unknown primary origin. We report a case in which a patient presented with a metastatic maligant...

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Autores principales: Lee, Eun Young, Choi, Jin-Oh, Park, Ha Na, Park, Eun-Jung, Lee, Gil Sun, Park, Jun Young, Kim, Jung-Sun, Jeon, Eun Seok
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Cardiology 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22563342
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2012.42.4.278
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author Lee, Eun Young
Choi, Jin-Oh
Park, Ha Na
Park, Eun-Jung
Lee, Gil Sun
Park, Jun Young
Kim, Jung-Sun
Jeon, Eun Seok
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description Malignant melanoma has a very high propensity to metastasize to the heart. However, melanoma may sometimes present as a metastatic lesion in the absence of a primary lesion, which are called melanomas of unknown primary origin. We report a case in which a patient presented with a metastatic maligant melanoma in the right atrium with pericardial effusion and without a primary origin.
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spelling pubmed-33414262012-05-04 Malignant Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting as Cardiac Metastasis Lee, Eun Young Choi, Jin-Oh Park, Ha Na Park, Eun-Jung Lee, Gil Sun Park, Jun Young Kim, Jung-Sun Jeon, Eun Seok Korean Circ J Case Report Malignant melanoma has a very high propensity to metastasize to the heart. However, melanoma may sometimes present as a metastatic lesion in the absence of a primary lesion, which are called melanomas of unknown primary origin. We report a case in which a patient presented with a metastatic maligant melanoma in the right atrium with pericardial effusion and without a primary origin. The Korean Society of Cardiology 2012-04 2012-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3341426/ /pubmed/22563342 http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2012.42.4.278 Text en Copyright © 2012 The Korean Society of Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Malignant Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting as Cardiac Metastasis
title Malignant Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting as Cardiac Metastasis
title_full Malignant Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting as Cardiac Metastasis
title_fullStr Malignant Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting as Cardiac Metastasis
title_full_unstemmed Malignant Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting as Cardiac Metastasis
title_short Malignant Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting as Cardiac Metastasis
title_sort malignant melanoma of unknown primary origin presenting as cardiac metastasis
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