Abstract

CIANCIULLI, Tomás F. et al. Cardiac metastasis from primary anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. Medicina (B. Aires) [online]. 2021, vol.81, n.4, pp.637-640. ISSN 0025-7680.

Cardiac neoplasms are rare entities in the clinical practice. Cardiac metastatic involvement is 20 to 40 times more frequent than the primary form, representing 95% of all cardiac tumors; however, they are frequently underdiagnosed because of their clinical and oncologic features. In this report, we present two cases of cardiac metastasis from primary anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: a 69-years-old woman with right ventricular metastasis and a 61-years-old man with right atrial metastasis. Both patients died during their hospitalization and one of them underwent an autopsy.

Keywords : Cardiac metastasis; Anaplastic thyroid cancer; Two-dimensional echocardiography.

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