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Title

Cardiac metastasis

Authors

Tanya M. Custer, University of Nebraska Medical CenterFollow
Lisa A. Bartenhagen, University of Nebraska Medical CenterFollow

Conference

Nebraska Society of Radiologic Technologists, Annual Conference

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date

4-2013

Abstract

Metastatic cardiac lesions are often clinically silent, and incidence may be determined more accurately upon autopsy.¹ Cardiac metastases have been identified by autopsy in up to 20% of patients who succumbed to cancer. Malignant melanoma, leukemia, and lymphoma are the most common primary cancers to spread to the heart; however, these cases of metastasis have decreased with improved chemotherapy regimens.²

Few reports of cardiac metastasis due to colon cancer were found in the literature. This exhibit illustrates the case of a 65-year-old female patient with presumed metastatic disease to the heart from a primary colon malignancy.

Recommended Citation

Custer, Tanya M. and Bartenhagen, Lisa A., "Cardiac metastasis" (2013). Posters and Presentations: Radiation Therapy. 5.
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/sahp_rste_pres/5