Uveal melanoma metastasising to the heart after 39 years

摘要

Ocular melanoma most often arises in the uvea and has several distinguishing characteristics from cutaneous melanoma including: dominant liver metastases, poor response to systemic therapy and late metastasis.1 We present a case of ocular melanoma, presenting after 39 years with liver and cardiac metastases (CM) to the right atrium and left ventricle. This is the longest time to CM from ocular or cutaneous melanoma that we could find in the English literature.