[Secondary cardiac localizations in different cancers. Comparison of clinical, electrocardiographic and autopsy data. Apropos of 51 cases]

Bull Cancer. 1988;75(4):355-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors have investigated 910 post-mortem examinations of different primary cancers. Fifty-one cases (5.6% of the autopsies) presented cancer lesions of the heart. They have found the accuracy of clinical and paraclinical diagnostics by comparing them with autopsy findings in case of pericardial lesions, but very rarely in case of myocardial location.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / etiology
  • Autopsy
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Humans
  • Myocardium
  • Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Pericardium