RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A rare case of intracranial metastatic amelanotic melanoma with cyst
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 548
OP 551
DO 10.1136/jcp.56.7.548
VO 56
IS 7
A1 Ogawa, R
A1 Aoki, R
A1 Hyakusoku, H
YR 2003
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/56/7/548.abstract
AB A rare case of intracranial metastatic amelanotic melanoma with cyst is presented. The patient was a 51 year old woman with a malignant melanoma arising on her right chest. Two years after a wide excision, skin and brain metastasis occurred. Brain magnetic resonance images demonstrated a tumour with a cyst in the left occipital lobe. Because the tumour showed low intensity on T1 weighted images and high intensity on T2 weighted images, the metastatic melanoma was identified as an amelanotic melanoma. Intracranial amelanotic melanoma is very rare, and there have been few reports of melanoma with cyst.