Reporte de dos casos clínicos de melanoma con metástasis cardíacas: ("dos caras de una misma moneda") / Melanoma with cardiac metastasis: report of two cases
Rev. chil. cardiol
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35(1): 52-55, 2016. ilus
Article
in Spanish
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| ID: lil-782645
ABSTRACT
A 39 year old man presented with signs of an ischemic in-farct in the territory of the medial cerebral artery. A large mobile mass was present in the left atrium and a biopsy showed tissue heavily infiltrated with fat and resection was not possible. A small lesion located at the dorsum allowed a histologic confirmation of a melanoma. The patient died 4 months after surgery. The second patient, a 34 year old woman being treated with chemotherapy for an ovarian melanoma was found to have a right atrial mass. After successful resection of the mass a metastasis of the original melanoma was confirmed and the patient remains in good condition at mid term follow up.
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Skin Neoplasms
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Heart Neoplasms
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Melanoma
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. chil. cardiol
Journal subject:
Cardiology
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Chile
Institution/Affiliation country:
Clínica Dávila/CL
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Clínica Tabancura/CL
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Universidad de los Andes/CL
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