Isolated Cardiac Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer in a 35-Year-Old Man

We present the case of a 35-year-old patient who was found to be affected by an isolated clinically silent cardiac metastasis despite a negative CT follow-up at one year from abdominal surgery for colorectal cancer. CT/PET and tumor marker GICA were fundamental in suggesting the diagnosis, which was...

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Autores principales: Pizzicannella, Jacopo, Ricci, Vincenzo, Gorla, Riccardo, Spinapolice, Elena, Esposito, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22481955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/751761
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author Pizzicannella, Jacopo
Ricci, Vincenzo
Gorla, Riccardo
Spinapolice, Elena
Esposito, Antonio
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description We present the case of a 35-year-old patient who was found to be affected by an isolated clinically silent cardiac metastasis despite a negative CT follow-up at one year from abdominal surgery for colorectal cancer. CT/PET and tumor marker GICA were fundamental in suggesting the diagnosis, which was then confirmed by cardiac magnetic resonance and surgical biopsy. This is a very rare modality of presentation of cardiac metastasis because of the young age of our patient and the absence of disease in other sites.
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spelling pubmed-33037522012-04-05 Isolated Cardiac Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer in a 35-Year-Old Man Pizzicannella, Jacopo Ricci, Vincenzo Gorla, Riccardo Spinapolice, Elena Esposito, Antonio Case Rep Med Case Report We present the case of a 35-year-old patient who was found to be affected by an isolated clinically silent cardiac metastasis despite a negative CT follow-up at one year from abdominal surgery for colorectal cancer. CT/PET and tumor marker GICA were fundamental in suggesting the diagnosis, which was then confirmed by cardiac magnetic resonance and surgical biopsy. This is a very rare modality of presentation of cardiac metastasis because of the young age of our patient and the absence of disease in other sites. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3303752/ /pubmed/22481955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/751761 Text en Copyright © 2012 Jacopo Pizzicannella et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Isolated Cardiac Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer in a 35-Year-Old Man
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title_fullStr Isolated Cardiac Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer in a 35-Year-Old Man
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/751761
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