Right Atrial Metastatic Melanoma with Unknown Primaries

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May 24, 2017443 views

Among all possible tumors of the heart, cardiac metastases most frequently involve melanoma. Though melanoma is the most frequent cause, cardiac metastases are still considered a rare event. However, cardiac metastases were diagnosed in less than 1% of cases due to asymptomatic presentation in the majority of these patients. Patients where a cardiac metastasis is discovered antemortem often present foremost with symptoms of metastasis in other areas, most commonly gastrointestinal. With our patient, we present a rare case of cardiac and liver melanoma metastases with an unknown primary tumor....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352741/

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