Basarici Ibrahim, Demir Ibrahim, Yilmaz Huseyin, Altekin R Emre
Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey.
Heart Lung. 2006 Sep-Oct;35(5):351-4. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2005.11.001.
Whether primary or metastatic, cardiac neoplastic diseases are relatively uncommon disorders. Although any malignancy may involve the heart, malignant melanoma (MM) has a significant tendency to metastasize to the heart. Cardiac involvement may occur during the course of MM or years after surgical therapy, but rarely metastasis may be the initial manifestation of the disease. This article reports a metastatic MM case that was initially manifested by heart failure symptoms because of right ventricle outflow obstruction and for which the primary focus could not be determined.
无论是原发性还是转移性心脏肿瘤疾病都是相对罕见的病症。尽管任何恶性肿瘤都可能累及心脏，但恶性黑色素瘤（MM）有显著的转移至心脏的倾向。心脏受累可能发生在MM病程中或手术治疗后的数年，但转移很少可能是该疾病的初始表现。本文报告了一例转移性MM病例，该病例最初因右心室流出道梗阻出现心力衰竭症状，且无法确定原发灶。
