Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review.

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Malignant melanoma can metastasize to virtually any organ of the body. The aggressiveness is determined by the primary site, depth of dermal invasion, presence or absence of ulceration, lymphovascular infiltration and regional lymph node involvement. We report a case of a pregnant woman with a previous history of stage 3 melanoma who presented with cardiac metastasis and placental melanoma infiltration. A review of literature on cardiac and placental involvement of melanoma is also provided.

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Authors/Creators:	Lakshminarayana, P. Danson, S. Suvarna, K. Hancock, B.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© Lakshminarayana et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2007. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Dates:	Published: 14 May 2007
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > The Medical School (Sheffield) > Division of Genomic Medicine (Sheffield) > Department of Oncology and Metabolism (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2016 14:10
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2016 14:17
Published Version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-21
Status:	Published
Publisher:	BioMed Central
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-21
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Atrial and placental melanoma metastasis: a case report and literature review.

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