Abstract
Metastatic tumors to the heart are becoming more common due to improved survival afforded by advanced treatment of malignancies. Their presence should be sought in a cancer patient who develops new primary cardiac symptoms. We present a case of a 50-year-old woman who succumbed to acute cor pulmonale secondary to metastatic laryngeal carcinoma to the right ventricle with subsequent tumor emboli to the pulmonary vasculature.
MeSH terms
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Acute Disease
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Autopsy
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Biopsy
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / complications
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / pathology
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / secondary*
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Female
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Heart Neoplasms / complications
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Heart Neoplasms / pathology
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Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
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Heart Ventricles / pathology
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Hemodynamics
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Humans
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Laryngeal Neoplasms / pathology*
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Middle Aged
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Necrosis
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Pulmonary Heart Disease / diagnosis
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Pulmonary Heart Disease / etiology*
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Pulmonary Heart Disease / pathology