| Literature DB >> 33503841 |
Agnieszka Styczeń1, Mariusz Kozak1, Marta Karaś-Głodek1, Elżbieta Czekajska-Chehab2, Andrzej Tomaszewski1, Andrzej Wysokiński1, Tomasz Zapolski1.
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.Entities:
Keywords: 64-slice multidetector computed tomography; echocardiogram; melanoma malignum; pembrolizumab
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33503841 PMCID: PMC7911921 DOI: 10.3390/medicina57020107
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Medicina (Kaunas) ISSN: 1010-660X Impact factor: 2.430