Malignant melanoma with liver and spleen metastases: case report

• Autor(a) principal: Ornellas, Laura Cotta
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Outros Autores: Lanzoni, Valeria Pereira [UNIFESP], Toledo, Carlos Fischer de [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1516-31802000000200006; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/946
• topic: Melanoma; Liver metastases; Spleen metastases; Melanoma; Metástases hepática; Metástases esplênica

CONTEXT: The diagnosis of primary melanoma is easily confirmed after histological analysis of the lesion, whereas it is rarely diagnosed when the patient even has distant metastases. DESIGN: Case report CASE REPORT: Malignant melanoma is responsible for about 1% of all deaths caused by cancer in the USA and only 3% of all malig-nant skin diseases. Malignant melanoma is a rare disease, although it corresponds to 65% of all deaths caused by skin cancer. The liver and spleen are rarely the first sites of melanoma metastases. This paper reports on the clinical picture of a patient with fatal malignant melanoma and hepatic and spleen metastases. As this was an un-usual presentation, the melanoma diagnosis could only be made after pathological analysis of the skin and hepatic lesions.