Endobronchial Malignant Melanoma: An Exceedingly Rare Occurrence. 2020

Marium Ghani, and Sara R Skavroneck, and Kiran Adlakha, and Alfred Papali
Internal Medicine, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, New York, USA.

Malignant melanoma is rarely observed to metastasize to endobronchial tissue. We present a case of endobronchial malignant melanoma in a 36-year-old male smoker with a regressed cutaneous lesion. Due to the limited number of cases and poor survival rate, no definitive treatment options are available to improve survival in patients with this rare disease presentation. Immunotherapy and surgical removal of locally aggressive tumor have been described, but the definitive role for these therapeutic modalities in the setting of endobronchial metastases remains largely unknown.

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