TY - JOUR T1 - Rapid and sustained airway control in metastatic malignant melanoma: a case report JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00050-2019 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 00050-2019 AU - Sarah Cullivan AU - John Bruzzi AU - Teresa McHale AU - Ramadan Shatwan AU - Paul Donnellan AU - David P. Breen Y1 - 2019/10/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/5/4/00050-2019.abstract N2 - A 70-year-old female presented with a 3-week history of a productive cough, progressive dyspnoea and small-volume haemoptysis. She was a lifelong nonsmoker with a past medical history of malignant melanoma of the left shoulder, which was treated with wide local excision 8 years prior to this presentation. This was a pT2N0M0 lesion with a Breslow thickness of 2 mm, negative resection margins and sentinel lymph nodes. She did not take any regular medications, had no drug allergies, and was a nun and a retired nurse with a history of occupational exposure to tuberculosis.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 ER -