Bronchogenic Carcinoma with Cardiac Invasion Simulating Acute Myocardial Infarction

Cardiac metastases in bronchogenic carcinoma may occur due to retrograde lymphatic spread or by hematogenous dissemination of tumour cells, but direct invasion of heart by adjacent malignant lung mass is very uncommon. Pericardium is frequently involved in direct cardiac invasion by adjacent lung ca...

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Main Authors: Anirban Das, Sibes K. Das, Sudipta Pandit, Rathindra Nath Karmakar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Oncological Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7813509

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