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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2016

A case of recurrent desmoplastic malignant melanoma presenting as empyema with underlying lung mass.

Mangaladevi S Patil, Kristopher M Day, Bassam I Aswad, Jesse Hart, Thomas Ng

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mangaladevi S PatilThe Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA mangaladevi_patil@brown.edu.
Kristopher M DayThe Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
Bassam I AswadThe Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA Department of Pathology, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
Jesse HartThe Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA Department of Pathology, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
Thomas NgThe Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
Rhode Island Hospital · USBrown University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Desmoplastic malignant melanoma (DMM) is an extremely rare subtype of cutaneous melanoma that has diverse clinical presentations. We describe the unique case of a 57-year-old man presenting with empyema secondary to vascular occlusion from metastatic DMM. Only two other cases of DMM presenting as a lung mass have been previously reported in the literature. This report highlights potential insidious pathology of DMM, which requires a high clinical suspicion to properly diagnose and manage.

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PMID27106614
PMCPMC4841566
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