Rapidly metastasizing malignant melanoma characterized by a rare BRAF mutation not responding to vemurafenib

J Dtsch Dermatol Ges. 2014 Feb;12(2):151-4. doi: 10.1111/ddg.12231. Epub 2013 Nov 18.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease / genetics
  • Humans
  • Indoles / therapeutic use*
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary
  • Male
  • Melanoma / diagnosis
  • Melanoma / drug therapy*
  • Melanoma / genetics
  • Melanoma / secondary*
  • Mutation / genetics
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf / genetics*
  • Skin Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Skin Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Skin Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Sulfonamides / therapeutic use*
  • Thoracic Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Thoracic Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Thoracic Neoplasms / secondary
  • Treatment Failure
  • Vemurafenib

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Indoles
  • Sulfonamides
  • Vemurafenib
  • BRAF protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf