Intratracheal metastasis from malignant melanoma

Malignant melanoma is increasing in incidence in most countries. Distant me tastases are common but intratracheal metastasis is extremely rare. We repo rt a 54-year-old man who presented with increasing dyspnoea. Symptomatic tr eatment for asthma had been of no effect. Bronchoscopy showed that trachea was nearly occluded by a tumoral mass, and biopsy proved this to be a metas tasis of malignant melanoma. The man's breathing difficulties disappeared a fter local laser therapy, but 2 months later he presented with symptoms of multiple brain metastases.