Right ventricular metastatic melanoma 27 years after resection of the primary tumor.
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.
Mindell
S M
SM
Department of Internal Medicine, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Michigan 48235.
Chernick
A W
AW
Sugarman
M H
MH
Zirkin
R M
RM
Bloom
R E
RE
D000368:Aged; D001415:Back; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000556:secondary*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors