Right ventricular metastasis from a primary cervical carcinoma.
A 49-year-old female presented with a 1-month history of cough and low-grade fever. Echocardiography showed a large mass in the right ventricle and percutaneous right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy provided the histologic diagnosis. Despite radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the patient died. At autopsy, the metastatic deposit in the heart was larger than the primary cervical carcinoma.
Iwaki
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The Second Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan. iwaki@im2.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Kanaya
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H
Namura
M
M
Ikeda
M
M
Uno
Y
Y
Terashima
N
N
Ohka
T
T
Miura
Y
Y
Shimizu
M
M
Mabuchi
H
H
D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*