A Case of Diffuse Metastatic Melanoma With Massive Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum

The incidence rate for melanoma continues to rise in the USA. The majority of melanoma cases are detected at an early stage and are amenable to surgical excision. Advanced melanoma with diffuse intraabdominal metastasis is rare. We present a case of a 50-year-old female with no known primary or hist...

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Autores principales: Addae, Jamin K, Rawlinson, Robert D, Adjei, Abigail, Brenner, Bruce, Blumofe, Karin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32670692
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8555
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author Addae, Jamin K
Rawlinson, Robert D
Adjei, Abigail
Brenner, Bruce
Blumofe, Karin
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description The incidence rate for melanoma continues to rise in the USA. The majority of melanoma cases are detected at an early stage and are amenable to surgical excision. Advanced melanoma with diffuse intraabdominal metastasis is rare. We present a case of a 50-year-old female with no known primary or history of melanoma who presented with massive intraabdominal bleeding secondary to diffuse metastatic melanoma with peritoneal implants. Diagnosing metastatic melanoma could be challenging. Clinicians should be aware of hemoperitoneum or peritoneal carcinomatosis as potential manifestations of malignant melanoma to expedite appropriate management.
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spelling pubmed-73573482020-07-14 A Case of Diffuse Metastatic Melanoma With Massive Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum Addae, Jamin K Rawlinson, Robert D Adjei, Abigail Brenner, Bruce Blumofe, Karin Cureus Dermatology The incidence rate for melanoma continues to rise in the USA. The majority of melanoma cases are detected at an early stage and are amenable to surgical excision. Advanced melanoma with diffuse intraabdominal metastasis is rare. We present a case of a 50-year-old female with no known primary or history of melanoma who presented with massive intraabdominal bleeding secondary to diffuse metastatic melanoma with peritoneal implants. Diagnosing metastatic melanoma could be challenging. Clinicians should be aware of hemoperitoneum or peritoneal carcinomatosis as potential manifestations of malignant melanoma to expedite appropriate management. Cureus 2020-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7357348/ /pubmed/32670692 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8555 Text en Copyright © 2020, Addae 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.
spellingShingle Dermatology
Addae, Jamin K
Rawlinson, Robert D
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A Case of Diffuse Metastatic Melanoma With Massive Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum
title A Case of Diffuse Metastatic Melanoma With Massive Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum
title_full A Case of Diffuse Metastatic Melanoma With Massive Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum
title_fullStr A Case of Diffuse Metastatic Melanoma With Massive Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum
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title_short A Case of Diffuse Metastatic Melanoma With Massive Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum
title_sort case of diffuse metastatic melanoma with massive spontaneous hemoperitoneum
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32670692
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8555
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