title: Primary pleural malignant melanoma with rapid progression.
abstract: Primary pleural malignant melanoma is an exceedingly rare neoplasm. To our knowledge only 3 cases have been reported. This report presents a rare case of a primary pleural malignant melanoma with rapid progression in a 36-year-old woman. The clinical, radiologic imaging and histopathologic features are discussed here. The diagnosis of melanoma was confirmed postoperatively after the immunohistochemistry. Due to the scarcity of similar cases reported in the literature, there are no reliable data on the management and the prognosis of the disease. Therefore, histopathologic and clinical criteria are important for diagnosing primary pleural malignant melanoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jinsong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: jiangke2013@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018450:Disease Progression; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed