Intracardiac metastasis from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
| Autor: | Donald Doll, Talha Riaz, Abdallah Mansour, Suha Abu Khalaf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Palatine Tonsil 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Intracardiac injection Metastasis Diagnosis Differential Heart Neoplasms 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Fatal Outcome Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography medicine Cardiac metastasis Humans Stroke Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Head and neck carcinoma Neoplasm Staging Tonsillectomy Embolic Stroke Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury business.industry Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck Head and neck cancer General Medicine Critical limb ischemia Chemoradiotherapy Adjuvant Middle Aged medicine.disease Head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma Nivolumab 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Neck Dissection Radiology medicine.symptom Neoplasm Grading business |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Case Rep |
| ISSN: | 1757-790X |
| Popis: | Cardiac metastasis from head and neck cancer is an extremely rare and devastating condition with an abysmal prognosis. Most of our knowledge about this condition is from case reports and series. We present a case of squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsils that was complicated by embolic stroke and critical limb ischemia that were found to be secondary to intracardiac metastasis. We believe that this condition is under-reported; hence, we conducted a thorough review of the literature to highlight the characteristics and previous therapeutic experiences with various presentations of cardiac metastasis from head and neck carcinoma. Clinicians are encouraged to report their experience with evaluating and managing this type of metastasis. |
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