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KMID : 0368120000300091170
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Korean Circulation Journal
2000 Volume.30 No. 9 p.1170 ~ p.1174
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Resection of Cardiac Metastasis of Malignant Melanoma
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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 and remained stable about 60 days after the operation. (Korean Circulation J 2000,30 (9):1170-1174)
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