Pericardial metastases in a long-surviving patient with sigmoid carcinoma.
Cardiac metastases are rare in patients affected by colorectal cancer. This is the case of a woman who underwent a colon resection because of a metastatic sigmoid carcinoma, that survived for more than 6 years and died for malignant pericardial effusion.
Lattuada
Sara
S
Unità Operativa di Oncologia Medica, Ospedale S Andrea, Vercelli, Italy. saralattuada1@virgilio.it
Saggia
Chiara
C
Biaggi
Gabriele
G
Santagostino
Alberto
A
Forti
Giorgio
G
Manachino
Domenico
D
Bellan
Luciano
L
Pollo
Maria Cristina
MC
Alabiso
Oscar
O
D002277:Carcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*