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Metastatic melanoma presenting as intravenous tumour thrombus

Author(s) -

Nguyen Jennifer,

Clements Warren,

McLean Catriona,

Haydon Andrew,

Moore Maggie,

Yap Kenneth SK,

Mar Victoria,

Shackleton Mark

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1754-9485

pISSN - 1754-9477

DOI - 10.1111/1754-9485.13019

Subject(s) - medicine , thrombus , radiology , melanoma , malignancy , complication , lumen (anatomy) , pembrolizumab , biopsy , fluorodeoxyglucose , positron emission tomography , cancer , pathology , immunotherapy , surgery , cancer research

Summary Tumour thrombus is a complication that occurs when a malignancy invades into the vasculature, occluding its lumen. Here, we present a rare case of melanoma tumour thrombus of the great saphenous vein of the left thigh, which was diagnosed on 18 F‐fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and ultrasound‐guided biopsy, and responded well to immunotherapy with pembrolizumab.

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