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Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Cardiac computed tomography;; cardiac mass;; cardiac tumor;; echocardiography
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Full-Text Articles in Cardiology
Left Ventricular Metastasis From A Primary Pancreatobiliary Tumor, A. N. Makaryus, L. Boxt
Left Ventricular Metastasis From A Primary Pancreatobiliary Tumor, A. N. Makaryus, L. Boxt
Journal Articles
Metastatic disease to the heart is not uncommon. We describe a case of a man in his 60s with an unusual metastasis to the heart and detail its intracardiac location by means of cardiac computerized tomography (CCT) and transthoracic echocardiography. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a pancreatobiliary tumor metastasizing exclusively to the left ventricle (LV) of the heart.