Malignant melanoma is the neoplasm with highest probability of cardiac metastatization. Cardiac involvement by metastatic melanoma is rarely identified ante-mortem (5-30% of cases) for non-specificity of cardiac symptoms. In fact we show in this case report that abdominal pain can represent the predominant symptom.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiscovering an hydatid cyst in pelvic region, especially as primary localization, is a rare event; as a matter of fact according to data provided by literature the incidence is between 0.2 and 2.25%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Presacral tumors are more frequently benign, and only occasionally malignant, showing a slow growth and an incidence of 1:40.000. They are asymptomatic in the 26-50% of the cases.
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