Diagnosis of cardiac occupancy as metachronous carcinoma using multimodal imaging: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Metachronous carcinoma presenting as a cardiac malignancy is rare, and timely diagnosis is critical. We report a patient with a primary cardiac tumor who eventually died and performed an imaging-related literature review.

Case presentation

A 68-year-old Chinese male patient, who had suffered from multiple malignancies, was suddenly found to have severely reduced platelets and symptoms of decreased cardiac function. After undergoing a series of imaging examinations such as transthoracic echocardiography and positron emission tomography-computed tomography, he was found to have a large occupancy within the right heart and was finally diagnosed with a primary cardiac malignancy. Combined with the patient's previous medical history, it was judged that this time it was

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9066888 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature