Simultaneous appearance of acute myeloid leukemia in a patient with bilateral primary uveal melanoma.
We report a rare case of a patient with bilateral uveal melanoma (the first eye surgically treated 6 years before the occurrence of melanoma in the contralateral eye), who developed an acute myeloid leukaemia.
Buda
Gabriele
G
Romagnoli
Maria Chiara
MC
Galimberti
Sara
S
Figus
Michele
M
Papineschi
Federico
F
Nardi
Marco
M
Petrini
Mario
M
D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012074:Remission Induction; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014604:Uveal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*