Metastatic Carcinoid Tumor to the Heart, A Dreadful Complication of Neuroendocrine Tumors Yet Under Estimated: About an Observation
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چکیده
Cardiac metastases are uncommon in neuroendocrine tumors (NET). Features of patients with metastatic carcinoid tumor involving the heart have not been well described. Although described almost every organ, few reported cases confirmed cardiac involvement. The overall incidence myocardial among disease is about 4%. There limited knowledge on prevalence, clinical presentation, and management metastasis. availability increasing use modern imaging techniques leads to more frequent discovery rare sites. Our aim further clarify manifestations metastasis, increase localizations NET metastasis insist systematic screening as an integral part echocardiographic evaluation syndrome. We report case a 67-year-old male history low differentiated tumor, presenting palpitations dyspnea which investigations led diagnose signing progression NETs.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: RA journal of applied research
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2394-6709']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47191/rajar/v7i8.03