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The Current Role of Surgery in the Treatment of Cardiac Metastases from Malignant Melanoma: an Educational Presentation.
Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery - 1 Feb 2021
Spiliopoulos Kyriakos, Engels Peter, Kimpouri Konstantina, Floudas Iraklis, Salemis Nikolaos S, Schmid Franz-Xaver
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A 71 year-old male with a history of multiple excisions of an initial Clark's level V melanoma of the breast followed by combined radiation and interferon treatment, as well as a recurrence, 3 years later, of a BRAF-positive tumor of the shoulder, with subsequent therapy with dabrafenib and trametinib, presented again with progressive intracardiac masses causing significant right ventricular outflow obstruction....
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