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CASE REPORT
Biventricular metastatic invasion from cervical squamous cell carcinoma
  1. Karan Kapoor1,
  2. Matthew C Evans2,
  3. Melsjan Shkullaku3,
  4. Rachel Schillinger4,
  5. Charles S White5,
  6. Dana M Roque4
  1. 1University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  3. 3Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  4. 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  5. 5Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Karan Kapoor, kkapoor{at}medicine.umaryland.edu

Summary

Metastasis to the heart has been previously described with primary lung and breast carcinoma, lymphoma, leukaemia, mesothelioma and melanoma. However, left-ventricular cardiac metastasis from primary cervical squamous cell carcinoma is poorly described. This report describes the clinical presentation of a patient with cardiac metastatic invasion from cervical cancer.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-214931

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