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Isolating Primary Melanocyte-like Cells from the Mouse Heart
Published on: September 29, 2014
Atypical Cardiac Location of Melanoma of Unknown Origin
Agnieszka Styczeń1, Mariusz Kozak1, Marta Karaś-Głodek1
1Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Lublin, Jaczewskiego 8, 20-954 Lublin, Poland.
Abstract:
The subject was a 66-year-old woman, suffering from the chest pain evoked by physical activity. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed an abnormal structure, 41 × 29 mm. In MSCT, a hypodensic mobile tissue lesion that was infiltrating the whole thickness of left ventricle was confirmed. PET excluded the existence of other remote lesions. After surgical tumor removal, histopathological differential diagnosis revealed melanoma, myoepithelial cancer, and MPNST "high-grade" sarcoma. A control TTE detected a tumor that was 14 × 10 mm. After immunohistochemical results, immunotherapy with pembrolizumab was used, which resulted in complete tumor resolution. Presently, surgical resection and neoadjuvant targeted immunochemotherapy remain the treatment of choice for clinical stage III/IV melanoma.
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