Circulating Tumor Cells and Cardiac Metastasis from Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report

We report the case of a 67-year-old man affected by metastatic esophageal cancer. The patient developed a symptomatic heart metastasis presenting as mimicking ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) documented the presence of a mass in the apex and septum...

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Autores principales: Consoli, Francesca, Arcangeli, Giuseppina, Ferrari, Vittorio, Grisanti, Salvatore, Almici, Camillo, Bordonali, Tania, Simoncini, Edda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Published: May 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21734885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329021
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author Consoli, Francesca
Arcangeli, Giuseppina
Ferrari, Vittorio
Grisanti, Salvatore
Almici, Camillo
Bordonali, Tania
Simoncini, Edda
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description We report the case of a 67-year-old man affected by metastatic esophageal cancer. The patient developed a symptomatic heart metastasis presenting as mimicking ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) documented the presence of a mass in the apex and septum of the left ventriculum. The dissemination of cancer was confirmed by the detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the peripheral blood, measured by the CellSearch System (Veridex, LLC, Raritan, N.J., USA). The blood sample drawn at cardiac disease progression revealed the presence of 2 CTCs per 7.5 ml of blood. This report highlights the potential role of CTCs as markers of metastatic spread.
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spelling pubmed-31244642011-07-06 Circulating Tumor Cells and Cardiac Metastasis from Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report Consoli, Francesca Arcangeli, Giuseppina Ferrari, Vittorio Grisanti, Salvatore Almici, Camillo Bordonali, Tania Simoncini, Edda Case Rep Oncol Published: May 2011 We report the case of a 67-year-old man affected by metastatic esophageal cancer. The patient developed a symptomatic heart metastasis presenting as mimicking ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) documented the presence of a mass in the apex and septum of the left ventriculum. The dissemination of cancer was confirmed by the detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the peripheral blood, measured by the CellSearch System (Veridex, LLC, Raritan, N.J., USA). The blood sample drawn at cardiac disease progression revealed the presence of 2 CTCs per 7.5 ml of blood. This report highlights the potential role of CTCs as markers of metastatic spread. S. Karger AG 2011-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3124464/ /pubmed/21734885 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329021 Text en Copyright © 2011 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: May 2011
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Arcangeli, Giuseppina
Ferrari, Vittorio
Grisanti, Salvatore
Almici, Camillo
Bordonali, Tania
Simoncini, Edda
Circulating Tumor Cells and Cardiac Metastasis from Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report
title Circulating Tumor Cells and Cardiac Metastasis from Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report
title_full Circulating Tumor Cells and Cardiac Metastasis from Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report
title_fullStr Circulating Tumor Cells and Cardiac Metastasis from Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Circulating Tumor Cells and Cardiac Metastasis from Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report
title_short Circulating Tumor Cells and Cardiac Metastasis from Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report
title_sort circulating tumor cells and cardiac metastasis from esophageal cancer: a case report
topic Published: May 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21734885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000329021
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