Carcinoma of the cervix causing massive intracardiac embolus.
A patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix with cardiac metastases causing a massive right ventricular and right atrial tumor embolus is presented. The patient presented with right heart failure due to the right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. The electrocardiogram showed low QRS voltage. Echocardiogram showed the right atrial and ventricular mass. The patient expired 3 days later. Involvement of the heart by metastatic carcinoma of the cervix is rare. The different modes of metastatic involvement of the heart by carcinoma of the cervix are discussed.
Mohammed
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S
Department of Medicine, Brown University, School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA.
Khodadoust
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K
D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications*; D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*