title: Metastatic tumor of squamous cell carcinoma from uterine cervix to heart: ante-mortem diagnosis.
abstract: Sixty-three-year-old woman with a past medical history of uterine cancer and complaint of fatigue and dyspnea on mild exertion. Physical examination revealed hypertension and rales at lung bases. A transthoracic echocardiogram showed a mass with reduced mobility in the right ventricle. The patient was taken to surgery during which a mass involving the anterior wall of the pulmonary artery, tricuspid valve, right atrium, and posterior wall of the right ventricle was found. The pulmonary artery and the right ventricle were reconstructed with a bovine pericardium patch and the tricuspid valve was replaced by a number-31 biological prosthesis. The pathological examination revealed metastasis of squamous cells with well-differentiated infiltrative areas. The patient was discharged one month after surgery. Four months later, however, she was readmitted to hospital in terminal stage, confirming the guarded prognosis of the disease at this stage.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitario Evangelico de Curitiba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. jgferraz@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: João Gustavo Gongora
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Ferraz
authors.forename: André Luiz Mylonas
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: João Francisco
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matos
authors.forename: Ana Paula Fraga Santini
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Canto
authors.forename: Alfredo Mylona
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Martins
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*