Resection of a right atrial metastatic melanoma with unknown origin of primary tumor.
Cardiac involvement of malignant melanoma is generally part of a widespread tumor dissemination, which is mostly multifocal. Hence the disease is usually not amenable to surgical intervention. We report successful resection of a large intracavitary melanoma to the right atrium, the primary origin of which was unknown. The right atrium was reconstructed with an autologous pericardial patch. At 12-month follow-up the patient remains asymptomatic.
Bossert
T
T
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum, University of Leipzig, Germany.
van Son
J A
JA
Autschbach
R
R
Mohr
F W
FW
D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary