Metastatic carcinoid tumor of the heart.
Although carcinoid heart disease has been well described in the literature, metastatic implantation in the heart is rare. We describe a 79-year-old man with no previous history of cancer who presented with progressive dyspnea. He was found to have a septal implantation of a previously undiagnosed metastatic carcinoid tumor. He underwent successful resection with an uneventful postoperative course.
Wee
Jon O
JO
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Sepic
Jerome D
JD
Mihaljevic
Tomislav
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Cohn
Lawrence H
LH
D000368:Aged; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016896:Treatment Outcome