Key result
RV metastatic melanoma causes right-sided heart failure 27 years after primary tumor resection.
Why the study?
A large right ventricular metastatic melanoma as the sole site of disease recurrence 27 years after primary tumor resection has not been previously described.
Metastatic melanoma can present as an isolated right ventricular mass causing right-sided heart failure decades after primary tumor resection.
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Alerts clinicians to consider isolated cardiac metastasis in long-term melanoma survivors with right heart failure; leaves optimal surveillance open.
This article is a case report of a 65-year-old white woman with a history of malignant melanoma, resected from her back in 1959. She presented 27 years later with right-sided heart failure and metastatic melanoma to her right ventricle. To the authors' knowledge, a large ventricular mass as the sole site of disease recurrence has not been described previously.
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Mindell et al. (1989) studied this question. A large right ventricular metastatic melanoma mass caused right-sided heart failure as the sole site of disease recurrence 27 years after primary tumor resection.
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