A Rare Form of Metastatic Melanoma in an HIV-Infected Patient – A Diagnosis to Remember

Malignant melanoma (MM), which is amongst the rarest skin cancers, still remains one of the deadliest and most likely to spread, and, in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, generally has a more aggressive behaviour. Although gastrointestinal (GI) tract metastases are frequent, seco...

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Autores principales: Leal-dos-Santos, Marta, Seixas, Diana, Gouveia, Emanuel, Cravo, Mariana, Maltez, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8794460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35111435
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20743
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author Leal-dos-Santos, Marta
Seixas, Diana
Gouveia, Emanuel
Cravo, Mariana
Maltez, Fernando
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Seixas, Diana
Gouveia, Emanuel
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description Malignant melanoma (MM), which is amongst the rarest skin cancers, still remains one of the deadliest and most likely to spread, and, in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, generally has a more aggressive behaviour. Although gastrointestinal (GI) tract metastases are frequent, secondary symptomatic colonic disease is rare. We present the case of a 76-year-old HIV-infected patient, with a 15-month history of GI and constitutional symptoms and a previous diagnosis of malignant melanoma. Diagnostic workup revealed metastatic involvement of the cecum. This case highlights the need to bear in mind the metastatic involvement of the GI tract by MM, and MM itself, especially in HIV-infected patients.
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spelling pubmed-87944602022-02-01 A Rare Form of Metastatic Melanoma in an HIV-Infected Patient – A Diagnosis to Remember Leal-dos-Santos, Marta Seixas, Diana Gouveia, Emanuel Cravo, Mariana Maltez, Fernando Cureus Dermatology Malignant melanoma (MM), which is amongst the rarest skin cancers, still remains one of the deadliest and most likely to spread, and, in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, generally has a more aggressive behaviour. Although gastrointestinal (GI) tract metastases are frequent, secondary symptomatic colonic disease is rare. We present the case of a 76-year-old HIV-infected patient, with a 15-month history of GI and constitutional symptoms and a previous diagnosis of malignant melanoma. Diagnostic workup revealed metastatic involvement of the cecum. This case highlights the need to bear in mind the metastatic involvement of the GI tract by MM, and MM itself, especially in HIV-infected patients. Cureus 2021-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8794460/ /pubmed/35111435 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20743 Text en Copyright © 2021, Leal-dos-Santos et al. https://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
Leal-dos-Santos, Marta
Seixas, Diana
Gouveia, Emanuel
Cravo, Mariana
Maltez, Fernando
A Rare Form of Metastatic Melanoma in an HIV-Infected Patient – A Diagnosis to Remember
title A Rare Form of Metastatic Melanoma in an HIV-Infected Patient – A Diagnosis to Remember
title_full A Rare Form of Metastatic Melanoma in an HIV-Infected Patient – A Diagnosis to Remember
title_fullStr A Rare Form of Metastatic Melanoma in an HIV-Infected Patient – A Diagnosis to Remember
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Form of Metastatic Melanoma in an HIV-Infected Patient – A Diagnosis to Remember
title_short A Rare Form of Metastatic Melanoma in an HIV-Infected Patient – A Diagnosis to Remember
title_sort rare form of metastatic melanoma in an hiv-infected patient – a diagnosis to remember
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8794460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35111435
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20743
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