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Case Reports
. 2020 Dec;64(6):814-816.
doi: 10.1111/1754-9485.13019. Epub 2020 Mar 30.

Metastatic melanoma presenting as intravenous tumour thrombus

Jennifer Nguyen  1 , Warren Clements  2   3 , Catriona McLean  4 , Andrew Haydon  5   6 , Maggie Moore  5 , Kenneth Sk Yap  7 , Victoria Mar  1 , Mark Shackleton  5   6
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Metastatic melanoma presenting as intravenous tumour thrombus

Jennifer Nguyen et al. J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

Tumour thrombus is a complication that occurs when a malignancy invades into the vasculature, occluding its lumen. Here, we present a rare case of melanoma tumour thrombus of the great saphenous vein of the left thigh, which was diagnosed on 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and ultrasound-guided biopsy, and responded well to immunotherapy with pembrolizumab.

Keywords: F-18 FDG PET/CT; immunotherapy; melanoma; metastasis; tumour thrombus.

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