Rapid and sustained airway control in metastatic malignant melanoma: a case report

Sarah Cullivan; John Bruzzi; Teresa McHale; Ramadan Shatwan; Paul Donnellan; David P Breen

doi:10.1183/23120541.00050-2019

Rapid and sustained airway control in metastatic malignant melanoma: a case report

ERJ Open Res. 2019 Dec 2;5(4):00050-2019. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00050-2019. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Sarah Cullivan^{1

2}, John Bruzzi^{3

2}, Teresa McHale^{4

2}, Ramadan Shatwan^{4

2}, Paul Donnellan^{5

2}, David P Breen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Interventional Respiratory Unit, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland.
² All authors contributed equally.
³ Dept of Radiology, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland.
⁴ Dept of Histopathology, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland.
⁵ Dept of Medical Oncology, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland.

Abstract

Endobronchial metastasis from extrapulmonary malignancies are rare and include malignant melanoma. Cases that are complicated by central airway obstruction should follow a patient-centred approach, guided by patient and tumour characteristics. http://bit.ly/32baZvo.