Endobronchial Malignant Melanoma: An Exceedingly Rare Occurrence

Malignant melanoma is rarely observed to metastasize to endobronchial tissue. We present a case of endobronchial malignant melanoma in a 36-year-old male smoker with a regressed cutaneous lesion. Due to the limited number of cases and poor survival rate, no definitive treatment options are available...

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Autores principales: Ghani, Marium, Skavroneck, Sara R, Adlakha, Kiran, Papali, Alfred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7362634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32676254
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8619
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author Ghani, Marium
Skavroneck, Sara R
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description Malignant melanoma is rarely observed to metastasize to endobronchial tissue. We present a case of endobronchial malignant melanoma in a 36-year-old male smoker with a regressed cutaneous lesion. Due to the limited number of cases and poor survival rate, no definitive treatment options are available to improve survival in patients with this rare disease presentation. Immunotherapy and surgical removal of locally aggressive tumor have been described, but the definitive role for these therapeutic modalities in the setting of endobronchial metastases remains largely unknown.
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spelling pubmed-73626342020-07-15 Endobronchial Malignant Melanoma: An Exceedingly Rare Occurrence Ghani, Marium Skavroneck, Sara R Adlakha, Kiran Papali, Alfred Cureus Internal Medicine Malignant melanoma is rarely observed to metastasize to endobronchial tissue. We present a case of endobronchial malignant melanoma in a 36-year-old male smoker with a regressed cutaneous lesion. Due to the limited number of cases and poor survival rate, no definitive treatment options are available to improve survival in patients with this rare disease presentation. Immunotherapy and surgical removal of locally aggressive tumor have been described, but the definitive role for these therapeutic modalities in the setting of endobronchial metastases remains largely unknown. Cureus 2020-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7362634/ /pubmed/32676254 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8619 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ghani 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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title_sort endobronchial malignant melanoma: an exceedingly rare occurrence
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7362634/
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