Cardiac metastases associated with gynecologic malignancies

Greenwald, Earl; Breen, James; Gregori, Caterina A.

doi:10.1016/0090-8258(80)90067-0

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“…As for the immediate cause of death, cases in which tumor emboli of the lungs led to death have been reported, similar to our case [6, 10, 11]. If the emboli had been found and treated earlier, the symptoms could have been alleviated and the patient's prognosis could have been improved.…”

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A Case of Cardiac Metastasis from Uterine Cervical Carcinoma

Okamoto

Kusumoto

Seki

et al. 2015

Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Cases of cardiac metastasis from uterine cervical carcinoma are rare. While they are occasionally found on autopsy, antemortem recognition is extremely rare. We confirmed a case of cardiac metastasis from cervical carcinoma antemortem, because we observed a decrease in platelet count during the course of treatment. The patient was a 27-year-old woman diagnosed with stage Ib1 uterine cervical carcinoma. Radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy was performed. Para-aortic lymph node metastasis was detected on positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET-CT). Adjuvant chemotherapy was started, and most of the metastatic lesions disappeared. Pelvic lymph node recurrence was suspected on PET-CT during continued chemotherapy; therefore, treatment was shifted to radiation therapy. Tumor shrinkage was recognized, and the initial therapy was completed. A noticeable decrease in platelet count was recognized seven months after treatment. Multidetector CT was performed, and an intracardiac tumor was detected. The patient did not desire any further treatment. She died three weeks after the intracardiac tumor was confirmed. Few previous autopsy studies have reported cardiac metastasis from cervical carcinoma. Thus, it is necessary to consider the possibility of cardiac metastasis for patients diagnosed with terminal cervical carcinoma.

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A Case of Cardiac Metastasis from Uterine Cervical Carcinoma

Okamoto

Kusumoto

Seki

et al. 2015

Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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“…The ten reports of successful removal of cardiac métastases are outlined in the Table.16"22 Seven of these ten tumors were sarcomas. The three patients (5,7, and 10) with carcinomas did not survive more than two months; all three died of disseminated tumors. Long-term follow-up was not mentioned in the case reports of two of the seven patients with sarcomas.…”

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Surgical Resection for Isolated Cardiac Metastases

Ravikumar¹

1983

Arch Surg

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“…A report by Greenwald et al [3] showed 6 of 1,100 gynecological cancer cases to have metastasis to the heart, but none was endometrial in origin. We were able to find several reported cases of cardiac metastasis from endometrial cancer in the past 30 years [4][5][6][7][8], two of which were from endometrial sarcoma [4,8], which are less rare than the cardiac metastasis from endometrial adenocarcinoma, like in our case [9].…”

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Diagnosis of Cardiac Metastasis from Endometrial Cancer by F-18 FDG-PET/CT

Liu

Khan

Behr

et al. 2014

Nucl Med Mol Imaging

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We report a case of a 59-year-old woman with right ventricular metastasis of undifferentiated endometrial cancer. Cardiac metastasis from endometrial cancer is a very rare finding. The case demonstrates that undifferentiated endometrial cancer is capable of metastasizing, presumably through a hematogenous route, to unexpected distant organs. These unexpected sites should not be undermined in the restaging and surveillance of these patients.

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Cardiac metastases associated with gynecologic malignancies

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

A Case of Cardiac Metastasis from Uterine Cervical Carcinoma

A Case of Cardiac Metastasis from Uterine Cervical Carcinoma

Surgical Resection for Isolated Cardiac Metastases

Diagnosis of Cardiac Metastasis from Endometrial Cancer by F-18 FDG-PET/CT

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