tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Posterior mediastinal melanoma causing severe dysphagia: A case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Posterior mediastinal melanoma causing severe dysphagia: A case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Posterior mediastinal melanoma causing severe dysphagia A case report Elisa Meacci 1 Antonino Mulè2 Alfredo Cesario1 2 3 Claudia Maggiore2 and Stefano Margaritora1 Address Department of Thoracic Surgery Catholic University Agostino Gemelli Hospital Largo A. Gemelli 8 - 00168 Rome Italy 2Department of Pathology Catholic University Agostino Gemelli Hospital Largo A. Gemelli 8 - 00168 Rome Italy and 3Pulmonary rehabilitation IRCCS San Raffaele Via dellaPisana 235 - 00166 Rome Italy Email Elisa Meacci - emeacci@ Antonino Mulè - amule@ Alfredo Cesario - alfcesario@ Claudia Maggiore - claudiamaggio@ Stefano Margaritora - smargaritora@ Corresponding author Published 30 September 2008 Received II December 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 316 doi 1752-1947-2-316 Accepted 30 September 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 316 2008 Meacci et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction We describe an original case of progressive severe dysphagia caused by a posterior mediastinal metastatic melanoma of unknown origin. To the best of our knowledge such an event has never been described before in the literature. Case presentation A progressive severe dysphagia case is reported induced by a melanoma of unknown origin metastatic to a posterior mediastinal lymph node . At the time of diagnosis the lesion appeared as a large posterior mediastinal mass mimicking a neurogenic tumour with oesophageal involvement. After complete resection pathological .