Pericardial metastases in a long-surviving patient with sigmoid carcinoma

Tumori. 2005 Jan-Feb;91(1):101-2. doi: 10.1177/030089160509100122.

Abstract

Cardiac metastases are rare in patients affected by colorectal cancer. This is the case of a woman who underwent a colon resection because of a metastatic sigmoid carcinoma, that survived for more than 6 years and died for malignant pericardial effusion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma / secondary*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Humans
  • Pericardial Effusion / diagnostic imaging
  • Pericardial Effusion / etiology
  • Radiography
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / pathology*