title: Resection of a right atrial metastatic melanoma with unknown origin of primary tumor.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum, University of Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bossert
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: van Son
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Autschbach
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Mohr
mesh_terms: 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