ArticleCase reports in oncology2011
Circulating tumor cells and cardiac metastasis from esophageal cancer: a case report.
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- The Uncharted Territories of Esophageal Cancer with Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Metastasis: A Case Report and Literature Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Esophageal Cancer With Cardiac Metastasis: Approach to Cardiac Masses in Patients With a Known Malignancy.Cureus · 2024Article
- Cardiac metastasis after esophagogastrectomy for esophageal adenocarcinoma with an antemortem diagnosis.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Asymptomatic Cardiac Metastases From Esophageal Cancer: A Case Report Of Ante-mortem Detection And Literature Review.Cureus · 2019Article
- Esophageal Cancer Metastases to Unexpected Sites: A Systematic Review.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2017Review
- Skeletal muscle metastasis from signet ring cell esophageal adenocarcinoma.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2016Article
- Asymptomatic myocardial metastasis from cancers of upper aero-digestive tract detected on FDG PET/CT: a series of 4 cases.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2014Article
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Abstract
We report the case of a 67-year-old man affected by metastatic esophageal cancer. The patient developed a symptomatic heart metastasis presenting as mimicking ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) documented the presence of a mass in the apex and septum of the left ventriculum. The dissemination of cancer was confirmed by the detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the peripheral blood, measured by the CellSearch System (Veridex, LLC, Raritan, N.J., USA). The blood sample drawn at cardiac disease progression revealed the presence of 2 CTCs per 7.5 ml of blood. This report highlights the potential role of CTCs as markers of metastatic spread.
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