1. Cardiac metastatic melanoma: Imaging diagnostic clues
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Patrizia Pedrotti, Massimo Torre, Stefano Fieschi, Roberto Pirola, Francesco Musca, Anna Maria De Biase, Alberto Roghi, Cristina Giannattasio, Giuseppina Quattrocchi, Pedrotti, P, Musca, F, Torre, M, Pirola, R, De Biase, A, Fieschi, S, Quattrocchi, G, Roghi, A, and Giannattasio, C
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Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Cardiac magnetic resonance ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Metastatic melanoma ,business.industry ,Thoracoscopy ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Imaging diagnostic ,Pericardial fluid ,medicine.disease ,Pericardial effusion ,Article ,Echocardiography ,Pericardiocentesis ,Surgical removal ,Cutaneous melanoma ,Cardiac imaging, Cardiac magnetic resonance, Cardiac metastases, Echocardiography, Thoracoscopy ,medicine ,Cardiac metastases ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Cardiac imaging - Abstract
A 47-year-old male was admitted to hospital for severe pericardial effusion; he had undergone surgical removal of cutaneous melanoma 10 years before. Echocardiography-guided pericardiocentesis revealed the presence of intramyocardial masses, which were better defined and characterized, together with pericardial involvement, by cardiac magnetic resonance. Pericardial fluid drained was negative for malignant cells, so video-assisted thoracoscopy was performed and pathologic tissue was biopsied, leading to the diagnosis of metastatic melanoma. Multidisciplinary approach and multimodality imaging played a key role in allowing the diagnostic workup in this complex case..
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- 2015
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