Malignant melanoma with brain metastases

Abstract

Malignant melanoma is a neoplasia of high aggressiveness, with great tendency to metastasize. Metastatic melanoma is considered an incurable disease; early diagnosis and treatment are the only strategies to improve prognosis in patients with this disease. The case of a patient who came to the Emergency Department at "Arnaldo Milian Castro" Surgical Clinic Hospital in Santa Clara, with neurological symptoms, for which a consultation was requested with a the Dermatology Specialist by the presence of a lesion presented in skin; underwent the diagnosis of malignant melanoma with brain metastases.

Keywords

• melanoma
• metástasis de la neoplasia