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
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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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author Puranik, Ameya D
Purandare, Nilendu C
Sawant, Sheela
Agrawal, Archi
Shah, Sneha
Jatale, Prafful
Rangarajan, Venkatesh
author_facet Puranik, Ameya D
Purandare, Nilendu C
Sawant, Sheela
Agrawal, Archi
Shah, Sneha
Jatale, Prafful
Rangarajan, Venkatesh
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description 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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spelling pubmed-43318222015-02-19 Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases Puranik, Ameya D Purandare, Nilendu C Sawant, Sheela Agrawal, Archi Shah, Sneha Jatale, Prafful Rangarajan, Venkatesh Cancer Imaging Case Series 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. BioMed Central 2014-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4331822/ /pubmed/25608865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1470-7330-14-16 Text en Copyright © 2014 Puranik et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Purandare, Nilendu C
Sawant, Sheela
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Shah, Sneha
Jatale, Prafful
Rangarajan, Venkatesh
Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases
title Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases
title_full Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases
title_fullStr Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases
title_full_unstemmed Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases
title_short Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases
title_sort asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on fdg pet/ct: a series of 4 cases
topic Case Series
url 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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