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. 1990;17(2):136–138.

Intracardiac Metastatic Melanoma

Report of a Case Mimicking a Right Atrial Myxoma, with a Review of the Literature

Uberto Bortolotti 1, Vincenzo Tursi 1, Aldo Milano 1, Alessandro Mazzucco 1, Vincenzo Gallucci 1
PMCID: PMC326472  PMID: 15227400

Abstract

A 49-year-old patient, referred with a diagnosis of right atrial myxoma, was found at surgery to have extensive cardiac metastases from a previously undetected cutaneous melanoma. In reviewing the literature, we found 5 other patients with a clinical diagnosis of melanoma metastatic to the heart, all of whom had a previous history of melanoma. In no other case has cardiac involvement been the 1st manifestation of a malignant cutaneous melanoma. (Texas Heart Institute Journal 1990;17:136-8)

Keywords: Heart neoplasms

Keywords: intracardiac metastases

Keywords: melanoma

Keywords: skin neoplasms

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