Melanoma in pregnancy.

Ferenc Czeyda-Pommersheim, Harriet Kluger, Jonathan Langdon, Christine Menias, Wendaline VanBuren, Jonathan Leventhal, Raymond Baumann, Margarita Revzin

Journal: Abdominal radiology (New York) 2023;48(5):1740-1751

PMID: 36719425

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Abstract

Melanoma is one of the most common types of cancer diagnosed during pregnancy. Patients with advanced disease require frequent staging examinations (e.g., CT, PET, MRI, ultrasound), which, during pregnancy must be modified from routine protocol to minimize risk to the fetus. We will review the diagnostic and treatment approach to pregnant patients with melanoma, with a discussion and pictorial examples of imaging protocol modifications, and the appearance of metastatic melanoma on radiology exams using modified protocols due to pregnancy.

Address: Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. [email protected].; Department of Medical Oncology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.; Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.; Department of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.; Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, New Haven, CT, USA.

DOI: 10.1007/s00261-022-03796-8

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MeSH Terms: Pregnancy, Female, Humans, Melanoma, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasonography, Neoplasms, Second Primary, Neoplasm Staging