Abstract
Secondary cardiac tumours are rare. The new diagnostic technology and more effective chemotherapy schedules for primary tumours, leading to a longer survival, have increased the frequency of such tumors. Adenocarcinoma accounted for around 40% of all metastases to the heart; the most frequently involved sites are pericardium and epicardium. We present a patient with an unusual intraventricular metastases from adenocarcinoma of rectal-sigmoid origin.
MeSH terms
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Adenocarcinoma / diagnostic imaging
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Adenocarcinoma / drug therapy
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Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
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Adenocarcinoma / surgery
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Aged
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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
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Capecitabine
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Cardiac Tamponade / etiology
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Deoxycytidine / administration & dosage
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Deoxycytidine / analogs & derivatives
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Dyspnea / etiology
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Fatal Outcome
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Female
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Fluorouracil / analogs & derivatives
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Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
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Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
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Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
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Humans
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Liver Neoplasms / secondary
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Organoplatinum Compounds / administration & dosage
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Oxaliplatin
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Palliative Care
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Radiography
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Rectal Neoplasms / drug therapy
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Rectal Neoplasms / pathology*
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Rectal Neoplasms / surgery
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Sigmoid Neoplasms / drug therapy
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Sigmoid Neoplasms / pathology*
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Sigmoid Neoplasms / surgery
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Ultrasonography
Substances
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Organoplatinum Compounds
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Oxaliplatin
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Deoxycytidine
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Capecitabine
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Fluorouracil