Yadav Nandini U, Gupta Dipti, Baum Michael S, Roistacher Nancy, Steingart Richard M
Fellow, Cardiology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Assistant Attending Physician, Cardiology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2014 Aug;72(8):1627-35. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2014.02.015. Epub 2014 Feb 15.
Cardiac metastases from head and neck cancer are rare. We present 2 patients with primary head and neck cancer found to have cardiac metastases. Electrocardiograms showed a persistent acute infarction pattern due to myocardial tumor infiltration. No cardiac symptoms were present. Both patients died of metastatic disease.
