[Cardiac metastases of malignant melanoma mimicking sick sinus syndrome].
We describe a patient with disseminated metastases from malignant melanoma manifested as symptomatic tachycardia and bradycardia that mimicked sick sinus syndrome. Autopsy showed extensive invasion of the right atrium by nodular disease.
Martí
Gerard
G
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, España.
Galve
Enric
E
Huguet
Josep
J
Soler Soler
Jordi
J
D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D012804:Sick Sinus Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*