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International journal
Sep 17, 2015

Primary pulmonary melanoma: a report of two cases.

World journal of surgical oncology
  • Mototsugu Watanabe
  • ,
  • Hiromasa Yamamoto
  • ,
  • Shinsuke Hashida
  • ,
  • Junichi Soh
  • ,
  • Seiichiro Sugimoto
  • ,
  • Shinichi Toyooka
  • ,
  • Shinichiro Miyoshi

Volume
13
Number
First page
274
Last page
274
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1186/s12957-015-0695-2

Malignant melanoma is a refractory malignancy with a dismal prognosis. It generally arises from the skin in most cases, and cases of primary pulmonary malignant melanoma are rare and often behave aggressively. We have treated two cases of localized primary pulmonary malignant melanoma using surgical resection. Pulmonary malignant melanomas often metastasize to the brain and liver; one of our cases exhibited metastasis to the cecum at about 8 months after surgery. Because cutaneous melanomas often carry activating mutations in the BRAF gene (V600E), we performed a BRAF mutational analysis using direct sequencing for both of these tumors arising from the lung. However, no BRAF mutations were detected. We detected a p53 mutation, which was thought to be a potential somatic mutation, in one of the two cases using a sequencing panel targeting 20 lung cancer-related genes. Although we also checked the expression of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) on the surface of the tumor cells by immunohistochemical testing, neither of our two cases expressed PD-L1. Further molecular analyses may uncover the characteristics of primary pulmonary malignant melanomas.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0695-2
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26376781
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4573480
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1186/s12957-015-0695-2
  • Pubmed ID : 26376781
  • Pubmed Central ID : PMC4573480

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