Cardiac metastasis from Merkel cell skin carcinoma
| Autor: | Masaaki Hamada, Nobuko Yamana, Hiroo Sueyama |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
medicine.medical_specialty Skin Neoplasms animal structures medicine.medical_treatment Metastasis Heart Neoplasms Surgical oncology Internal medicine medicine Cardiac metastasis Humans skin and connective tissue diseases Chemotherapy integumentary system Merkel cell carcinoma business.industry virus diseases Hematology General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Carcinoma Merkel Cell Radiation therapy medicine.anatomical_structure cardiovascular system Cancer research Female Surgery Merkel cell Skin Carcinoma business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Clinical Oncology. 9 |
| ISSN: | 1437-7772 1341-9625 |
| Popis: | A 54-year-old woman presented with cardiac metastasis of a Merkel cell carcinoma. Chemotherapy was not effective for the metastasis sites; therefore, radiotherapy was performed for the metastatic cardiac tumors, and it reduced the volume of the cardiac tumors. Cardiac metastasis from Merkel cell carcinoma is rare. Radiotherapy for metastatic cardiac tumors from Merkel cell carcinoma is useful as palliative treatment when the response to chemotherapy is poor. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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