title: Metastatic malignant melanoma presenting with hypercalcaemia and bone marrow involvement.
abstract: We report a 75-year-old female patient with a background of malignant melanoma who presented with hypercalcaemia to our institution. She was aggressively treated but declined clinically. Computed tomography head and X-ray studies were suggestive of multiple myeloma, but bone marrow examination was significant for metastatic malignant melanoma. Very few patients with melanoma present with these features, and it further exemplifies the importance of close follow-up and the aggressive nature of this disease process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55901, USA. batsis.john@mayo.edu
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Batsis
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Barry
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019046:Bone Marrow Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000150:complications*; D008545:Melanoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed