Korean Circ J.  2000 Sep;30(9):1170-1174. 10.4070/kcj.2000.30.9.1170.

Resection of Cardiac metastasis of malignant melanoma

• Lee KS

• KMID: 2093761
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2000.30.9.1170

Abstract

Malignant melanoma is unique in its propensity to metastasize to the heart with frequencies ranging from 50% to 71%. We report a case of a resection of large intracavitary malignant melanoma causing obstruction of the right ventricular inflow and outflow tract of the heart. A 49-year-old-woman presented clinical symptoms and signs of life-threatening congestive right heart failure. Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography revealed a large intracavitary mass occupying the entire right ventricle. Inguinal lymph node biopsy demonstrated metastatic melanoma. The cardiac main mass was palliatively resected and demonstrated to be a metastatic melanoma. The patient improved symptomatically about 60 days after the operation.

Keyword

Malignant melanoma; Cardiac mass; Resection

MeSH Terms

Biopsy
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)
Heart
Heart Failure
Heart Ventricles
Humans
Lymph Nodes
Melanoma*
Neoplasm Metastasis*
Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)