Cardiac metastasis in a living patient with oral cancer.
Cardiac metastasis
Oral cancer
PET–CT
Journal
Auris, nasus, larynx
ISSN: 1879-1476
Titre abrégé: Auris Nasus Larynx
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7708170
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2019
Dec 2019
Historique:
received:
22
07
2018
revised:
23
10
2018
accepted:
29
10
2018
pubmed:
25
11
2018
medline:
13
2
2020
entrez:
25
11
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Cardiac metastasis from head and neck cancers are very rare. Metastases to heart are mostly diagnosed at autopsy, and seldom found while patients are alive. Patients with cardiac metastasis do not present with specific symptoms in the early stages, and diagnosis is often delayed until the disease has advanced significantly. Here, we report a 66-year-old lady who was diagnosed with cardiac metastasis 10 months after surgical resection of oral cancer. She died one month following the discovery of cardiac metastasis. Cardiac metastasis should be considered when unexplained and progressive decline of general health is observed, even in the absence of abnormalities on the electrocardiogram. Early diagnosis may be made by analyzing the chronological changes in the cardiac accumulation of fluorodeoxyglucose during positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30470634
pii: S0385-8146(18)30651-5
doi: 10.1016/j.anl.2018.10.018
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
902-906Informations de copyright
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