A Right Ventricular Mass in a Patient with Squamous Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Cardiac metastasis is much more common than primary cardiac tumors. Lung cancer is one of the most common primary malignancies to metastasize to the heart. It is not common for metastasis in the heart to present as a cavitary mass. To our knowledge, four cases have been reported in the literature sh...

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Autores principales: Ya'qoub, Lina, Payne, Katie, Parikh, Shailja, Enriquez, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29725564
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2261
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author Ya'qoub, Lina
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description Cardiac metastasis is much more common than primary cardiac tumors. Lung cancer is one of the most common primary malignancies to metastasize to the heart. It is not common for metastasis in the heart to present as a cavitary mass. To our knowledge, four cases have been reported in the literature showing metastatic lung cancer to the heart, presenting as a right ventricular mass.
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spelling pubmed-59314102018-05-03 A Right Ventricular Mass in a Patient with Squamous Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature Ya'qoub, Lina Payne, Katie Parikh, Shailja Enriquez, Jonathan Cureus Cardiology Cardiac metastasis is much more common than primary cardiac tumors. Lung cancer is one of the most common primary malignancies to metastasize to the heart. It is not common for metastasis in the heart to present as a cavitary mass. To our knowledge, four cases have been reported in the literature showing metastatic lung cancer to the heart, presenting as a right ventricular mass. Cureus 2018-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5931410/ /pubmed/29725564 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2261 Text en Copyright © 2018, Ya'qoub et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Parikh, Shailja
Enriquez, Jonathan
A Right Ventricular Mass in a Patient with Squamous Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title A Right Ventricular Mass in a Patient with Squamous Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full A Right Ventricular Mass in a Patient with Squamous Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr A Right Ventricular Mass in a Patient with Squamous Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed A Right Ventricular Mass in a Patient with Squamous Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short A Right Ventricular Mass in a Patient with Squamous Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort right ventricular mass in a patient with squamous cell lung cancer: a case report and review of literature
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29725564
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2261
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