Onwuchekwa Jean, Banchs Jose
Department of Cardiology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Tex Heart Inst J. 2012;39(4):565-7.
Cardiac metastasis from primary tumors is rare. Cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue is rare; in the English-language medical literature, we read of only 4 patients with this condition. Here, we discuss the cases of 2 such patients who presented at our institution only a few months apart. In both, with the use of 2-dimensional echocardiography, we incidentally found cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Resection of the cardiac masses was precluded. These cases illustrate the usefulness of early cardiac evaluation with 2-dimensional echocardiography in patients with head and neck cancer and known metastatic disease.
原发性肿瘤的心脏转移很少见。舌鳞状细胞癌的心脏转移罕见;在英文医学文献中,我们仅读到4例患有这种疾病的患者。在此,我们讨论2例这样的患者,他们在我们机构就诊的时间仅相隔几个月。在这两例患者中,通过二维超声心动图,我们偶然发现了舌鳞状细胞癌的心脏转移。心脏肿块无法切除。这些病例说明了二维超声心动图对有头颈部癌和已知转移性疾病患者进行早期心脏评估的有用性。