Malignant melanoma of the right atrium: antemortem diagnosis by transvenous biopsy.
About half of all patients with malignant melanoma have cardiac metastases. Histological confirmation antemortem of a secondary malignant melanoma of the heart is difficult. The diagnosis of a secondary melanoma in the right atrium was confirmed by transvenous biopsy in a 46 year old woman who had had a melanoma excised from her right leg two years before.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
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D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D006801:Humans; D007601:Jugular Veins; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D008875:Middle Aged