title: Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung Atypically Involving Heart: A Case Report With Literature Review.
abstract: Cardiac metastasis usually appears in patients with disseminated tumor disease. Involvement of heart in malignancy is generally underestimated and found to be in up to 25% of post mortem patients who had died of cancer. Cardiac involvement in metastases is usually uncommon; however, it may present with tachycardia, arrhythmia, cardiomegaly, heart failure, dyspnoea, hypotension, and pulsus paradoxus. Right side of heart is commonly known to be involved and the order of frequency of malignancies to metastasize to layers of the heart is pericardium, myocardium and endocardium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ete
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Pravin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jha
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Bhupen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barman
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Animesh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Manish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kapoor
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malviya
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Vandana
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Raphael
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.
authors.forename: Neel Kanth
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Issar
keywords: Endocardium; Left ventricle; Metastasis; Squamous cell carcinoma