title: [Symptomatic cardiac metastasis. Isolated visceral manifestation of a cutaneous malignant melanoma].
abstract: Symptomatic cardiac melanoma metastases are very rare. A 76-year-old woman was admitted because of dyspnea and intrathoracic pain 8 years after surgery of a superficial spreading melanoma and 4 years after resection of in-transit metastases. MRI and echocardiography disclosed an intracavitary right atrial mass. Histologically a cardiac melanoma metastasis was found. Unspecific cardiac symptoms in a patient with elevated risk for distant metastases of melanoma should be further investigated to discover cardiac metastasis early.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06097 Halle (Saale).
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nebel
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Holzhausen
authors.forename: P-M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Marsch
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fiedler
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*