Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases of Malignant Melanoma: A Rare Case Report on Paraplegia in Palliative Care

Rates of malignant melanoma have been increasing in frequency. Studies have shown that up to 46% of patients with melanoma will experience metastases to the central nervous system. Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis of malignant melanoma is rare. In advanced cancers, surgery might not be possible...

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Autores principales: Sonawane, Rutula, Ghoshal, Arunangshu, Damani, Anuja, Muckaden, MaryAnn, Deodhar, Jayita K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6659533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31413466
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_163_18
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author Sonawane, Rutula
Ghoshal, Arunangshu
Damani, Anuja
Muckaden, MaryAnn
Deodhar, Jayita K
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Ghoshal, Arunangshu
Damani, Anuja
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description Rates of malignant melanoma have been increasing in frequency. Studies have shown that up to 46% of patients with melanoma will experience metastases to the central nervous system. Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis of malignant melanoma is rare. In advanced cancers, surgery might not be possible, and radiotherapy with corticotherapy is a viable option. In the following case, a 54-year-old male presented to the clinic with an intramedullary tumor in the D1 region. He was successfully managed with an integrated palliative care approach with concomitant cancer-directed therapy.
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spelling pubmed-66595332019-08-14 Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases of Malignant Melanoma: A Rare Case Report on Paraplegia in Palliative Care Sonawane, Rutula Ghoshal, Arunangshu Damani, Anuja Muckaden, MaryAnn Deodhar, Jayita K Indian J Palliat Care Case Report Rates of malignant melanoma have been increasing in frequency. Studies have shown that up to 46% of patients with melanoma will experience metastases to the central nervous system. Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis of malignant melanoma is rare. In advanced cancers, surgery might not be possible, and radiotherapy with corticotherapy is a viable option. In the following case, a 54-year-old male presented to the clinic with an intramedullary tumor in the D1 region. He was successfully managed with an integrated palliative care approach with concomitant cancer-directed therapy. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6659533/ /pubmed/31413466 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_163_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sonawane, Rutula
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Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases of Malignant Melanoma: A Rare Case Report on Paraplegia in Palliative Care
title Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases of Malignant Melanoma: A Rare Case Report on Paraplegia in Palliative Care
title_full Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases of Malignant Melanoma: A Rare Case Report on Paraplegia in Palliative Care
title_fullStr Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases of Malignant Melanoma: A Rare Case Report on Paraplegia in Palliative Care
title_full_unstemmed Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases of Malignant Melanoma: A Rare Case Report on Paraplegia in Palliative Care
title_short Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases of Malignant Melanoma: A Rare Case Report on Paraplegia in Palliative Care
title_sort intramedullary spinal cord metastases of malignant melanoma: a rare case report on paraplegia in palliative care
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6659533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31413466
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_163_18
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