Solitary Cardiac Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer: A Case Report

Solitary Cardiac Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer: A Case Report

A 73-year-old woman with silent cardiac metastasis underwent high anterior resection for rectal cancer 3 years ago. Follow-up computed tomography showed a tumor in the right atrium. Partial vascular resection of the superior vena cava and right atrium was performed. Early postoperative recurrence oc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Case Reports in Oncology 2022-09, Vol.15 (3), p.798-803
Hauptverfasser: Numata, Koji, Urata, Nozomi, Nakayama, Yuta, Ju, Mihwa, Tanaka, Ayano, Nakayama, Hirotaka, Yamanaka, Kazuki, Hatori, Shinsuke, Matsubara, Osamu, Rino, Yasushi, Tani, Kazuyuki
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Sprache:eng
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Autopsies
Cancer
Cancer therapies
cardiac metastasis
Care and treatment
Case Report
Case reports
Chemotherapy
Colorectal cancer
Conflicts of interest
Development and progression
Heart failure
Heart surgery
Hospitals
Lungs
Lymphoma
Medical imaging
Metastasis
Mortality
Patient outcomes
Prevention
resection
Risk factors
Tomography
Tumors
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Zusammenfassung:A 73-year-old woman with silent cardiac metastasis underwent high anterior resection for rectal cancer 3 years ago. Follow-up computed tomography showed a tumor in the right atrium. Partial vascular resection of the superior vena cava and right atrium was performed. Early postoperative recurrence occurred, and chemotherapy was unsuccessful. The patient died 7 months after surgery.
ISSN:1662-6575
1662-6575
DOI:10.1159/000526549