Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases

Metastatic involvement of the heart is a rare occurrence and remains undiagnosed until autopsy. In some instances, patients may have cardiac symptoms, leading to ante-mortem diagnosis. Although most primary cancers have been documented to metastasize to heart, the existing literature on cancers of u...

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Autores principales: Puranik, Ameya D, Purandare, Nilendu C, Sawant, Sheela, Agrawal, Archi, Shah, Sneha, Jatale, Prafful, Rangarajan, Venkatesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25608865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1470-7330-14-16
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Sumario:Metastatic involvement of the heart is a rare occurrence and remains undiagnosed until autopsy. In some instances, patients may have cardiac symptoms, leading to ante-mortem diagnosis. Although most primary cancers have been documented to metastasize to heart, the existing literature on cancers of upper aero-digestive tract is an exception, with only a few reports. We report four cases of upper aero-digestive tract cancers, three of which arise from oral cavity, one from lower esophagus, metastasising to the myocardium, detected on (18) F – Fluoro-deoxy-glucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (FDG PET/CT) study , in the absence of related symptoms.

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