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Right ventricular metastatic melanoma 27 years after resection of the primary tumor
Author(s) -
Mindell Seth M.,
Chernick Allan W.,
Sugarman Marcus H.,
Zirkin Richard M.,
Bloom Robert E.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19890315)63:6<1237::aid-cncr2820630634>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , ventricle , primary tumor , resection , surgery , cancer , cardiology , metastasis , cancer research
This article is a case report of a 65‐year‐old white woman with a history of malignant melanoma, resected from her back in 1959. She presented 27 years later with right‐sided heart failure and metastatic melanoma to her right ventricle. To the authors' knowledge, a large ventricular mass as the sole site of disease recurrence has not been described previously.