Histopathology of the cardiac conduction system in a case of metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Metastatic tumor involving the heart occasionally complicates the course of patients with neoplasia. A 70-year-old white male died suddenly. Post-mortem histological examination showed the presence of cardiac metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma compressing the cardiac conduction system, which had led to motility, hemodynamic and conductive abnormalities deteriorating into sudden death.
Ottaviani
Giulia
G
Institute of Pathology, University of Milan, Via della Commenda, 19, 20122 Milan, Italy. giulia.ottaviani@unimi.it
Rossi
Lino
L
Matturri
Luigi
L
D000368:Aged; D021441:Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000473:pathology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*