Abstract

CARPIO DEHEZA, Gonzalo; ALMENDRAS, Mary Cruz; CANEDO BLANCO, Pablo Joaquín  and  BARRIENTOS ZUNIGA, Cecilia Marcela. MALIGNANT MELANOMA: CLINICAL PRESENTATION, REPORT OF A CASE. Rev. Méd.-Cient. Luz Vida [online]. 2010, vol.1, n.1, pp. 60-64. ISSN 2219-8032.

Nowadays, there is not frequently the appearance of primary melanoma, because it has a difficult diagnosis. It has different ways of presentation and symptomatology, especially, when you cannot know if they come from melanoma or from a different organ with metastasis. Melanoma has an aggressive behavior and it has not a Standard Treatment Protocol, all of this involves a bad prognostic. Pleural affectation is present in 15 % of patients with malignant melanoma and thoracic metastasis. In this investigation we present the case of 58 years old masculine patient with an inguinal tumor of three years of evolution, narrow mediastinum with pulmonary metastasis and an unknown primary tumor, as pathologic personal history. The last one is diagnosed like primary malignant melanoma, after a lot of biopsies (with atypia as results) and inmunohistological chemistry studies.

Keywords : Malignant Melanoma; Pulmonary Metastasis.