Jaundice and Haematemesis: An Unusual Presentation of Metastatic Malignant Melanoma

An 87-year-old male presented with jaundice and haematemesis on a background of recent lethargy and a history of excessive alcohol use. The results of a computed tomography (CT) scan indicated either a cirrhotic liver with regenerative nodules or diffuse malignancy. A gastroscopy revealed an ulcerat...

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Autores principales: Rothschild, Philip S, Subramaniam, Arjun, Chakrabarti, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528771
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8035
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description An 87-year-old male presented with jaundice and haematemesis on a background of recent lethargy and a history of excessive alcohol use. The results of a computed tomography (CT) scan indicated either a cirrhotic liver with regenerative nodules or diffuse malignancy. A gastroscopy revealed an ulcerating gastric tumour. The gastric biopsy confirmed the neoplasm as metastatic malignant melanoma, and the patient passed away on the day of diagnosis from acute hepatic failure. This case is unusual as there was an atypical cause of jaundice and haematemesis, and the diagnosis of melanoma was not established until the day of the patient’s death.
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spelling pubmed-72823602020-06-10 Jaundice and Haematemesis: An Unusual Presentation of Metastatic Malignant Melanoma Rothschild, Philip S Subramaniam, Arjun Chakrabarti, Rahul Cureus Emergency Medicine An 87-year-old male presented with jaundice and haematemesis on a background of recent lethargy and a history of excessive alcohol use. The results of a computed tomography (CT) scan indicated either a cirrhotic liver with regenerative nodules or diffuse malignancy. A gastroscopy revealed an ulcerating gastric tumour. The gastric biopsy confirmed the neoplasm as metastatic malignant melanoma, and the patient passed away on the day of diagnosis from acute hepatic failure. This case is unusual as there was an atypical cause of jaundice and haematemesis, and the diagnosis of melanoma was not established until the day of the patient’s death. Cureus 2020-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7282360/ /pubmed/32528771 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8035 Text en Copyright © 2020, Rothschild et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Jaundice and Haematemesis: An Unusual Presentation of Metastatic Malignant Melanoma
title Jaundice and Haematemesis: An Unusual Presentation of Metastatic Malignant Melanoma
title_full Jaundice and Haematemesis: An Unusual Presentation of Metastatic Malignant Melanoma
title_fullStr Jaundice and Haematemesis: An Unusual Presentation of Metastatic Malignant Melanoma
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title_short Jaundice and Haematemesis: An Unusual Presentation of Metastatic Malignant Melanoma
title_sort jaundice and haematemesis: an unusual presentation of metastatic malignant melanoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282360/
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