Reporte de dos casos clínicos de melanoma con metástasis cardíacas: ("Dos caras de una misma moneda")

• Ignacio Cabrera ^[1] ; Pamela Rojo ^[2] ; Iván Palma ^[2] ; Bárbara Clericus ^[3] ; Ernesto Larraín ^[2] ; Rafael Selman ^[3]
  1. [1] Universidad de Los Andes

     Universidad de Los Andes

     Colombia

     
  2. [2] Clínica Dávila Departamento Cardiología
  3. [3] Clínica Tabancura Servicio de Cardiología

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• Localización: Revista chilena de cardiología, ISSN-e 0718-8560, Vol. 35, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 52-55
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Melanoma with cardiac metastasis: report of two cases
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  • A 39 year old man presented with signs of an ischemic in-farct in the territory of the medial cerebral artery. A large mobile mass was present in the left atrium and a biopsy showed tissue heavily infiltrated with fat and resection was not possible. A small lesion located at the dorsum allowed a histologic confirmation of a melanoma. The patient died 4 months after surgery. The second patient, a 34 year old woman being treated with chemotherapy for an ovarian melanoma was found to have a right atrial mass. After successful resection of the mass a metastasis of the original melanoma was confirmed and the patient remains in good condition at mid term follow up.