title: Pericardial metastases in a long-surviving patient with sigmoid carcinoma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Unità Operativa di Oncologia Medica, Ospedale S Andrea, Vercelli, Italy. saralattuada1@virgilio.it
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lattuada
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saggia
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Biaggi
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santagostino
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Forti
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Manachino
authors.forename: Luciano
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bellan
authors.forename: Maria Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pollo
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Alabiso
mesh_terms: 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*