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Cardiac Metastasis From Uveal Melanoma
Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:139-140.
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Ruiz and coworkers1 recently described
an elderly woman who developed cardiac metastasis from choroidal melanoma
and died of a ruptured myocardium. Because of a scarcity of other reports,
they concluded that cardiac metastasis from uveal melanoma was extremely rare,
perhaps with the exception of patients with widespread micrometastases that
might go undetected without autopsy.1 In
our experience, macroscopically detectable metastasis from uveal melanoma
to the heart is not uncommon, although it is true that it has seldom been
reported in the literature. We are aware of 4 reports of cardiac metastasis
from uveal melanoma in 14 patients.1-4
A fifth article mentions 2 patients with cardiac metastasis from an ocular
primary melanoma, but it does not specify whether the primary site was the
uvea or conjunctiva.5 The purpose of the
present report is to describe 5 patients with cardiac metastasis and to estimate
the frequency of metastasis to the heart from . . . [Full Text of this Article]Report of Cases
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Corresponding author and reprints: Teemu Mäkitie, MD, Ophthalmic
Pathology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, Helsinki University Central
Hospital, Haartmaninkatu 4 C, PL 220, FIN-00029 HUS, Helsinki, Finland (e-mail: teemu.makitie@huch.fi).
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