Antemortem diagnosis of an endomyocardial breast cancer metastasis by transvenous endomyocardial biopsy.
Endomyocardial breast cancer metastases are extremely rare and have previously been diagnosed antemortem only through median sternotomy and cardiotomy. We report a case of endomyocardial breast cancer metastasis which was diagnosed antemortem by transvenous endomyocardial biopsy.
Lieberman
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Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
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Steenbergen
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Bashore
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D004699:Endocardium; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium