Cardiac metastases of gallbladder carcinoma

Tomoko Inoue; Katsuya Shiraki; Hiroyuki Fuke; Yutaka Yamanaka; Kazumi Miyashita; Keiichi Ito; Masahiro Suzuki; Kazushi Sugimoto; Kazumoto Murata; Takeshi Nakano

doi:10.3748/wjg.v11.i13.2048

Cardiac metastases of gallbladder carcinoma

World J Gastroenterol. 2005 Apr 7;11(13):2048-9. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i13.2048.

Authors

Tomoko Inoue¹, Katsuya Shiraki, Hiroyuki Fuke, Yutaka Yamanaka, Kazumi Miyashita, Keiichi Ito, Masahiro Suzuki, Kazushi Sugimoto, Kazumoto Murata, Takeshi Nakano

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Mie University School of Medicine, 2-174 Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, 514-8507, Japan.

Abstract

This report describes the case of a 68-year-old woman diagnosed with advanced gallbladder cancer, whose autopsy revealed multiple metastases, including cardiac metastases.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
Aged
Duodenal Neoplasms / secondary
Fatal Outcome
Female
Gallbladder Neoplasms / pathology*
Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
Humans
Liver Neoplasms / secondary
Pancreatic Neoplasms / secondary