title: Intracardiac metastatic melanoma: report of a case mimicking a right atrial myxoma, with a review of the literature.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Bortolotti
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tursi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Milano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mazzucco
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gallucci