Intracardiac metastatic melanoma: report of a case mimicking a right atrial myxoma, with a review of the literature.
A 49-year-old patient, referred with a diagnosis of right atrial myxoma, was found at surgery to have extensive cardiac metastases from a previously undetected cutaneous melanoma. In reviewing the literature, we found 5 other patients with a clinical diagnosis of melanoma metastatic to the heart, all of whom had a previous history of melanoma. In no other case has cardiac involvement been the 1st manifestation of a malignant cutaneous melanoma.
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The Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.
Tursi
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Milano
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Mazzucco
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Gallucci
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