CLINICAL PROGRESS Metastatic Cancer to the Heart
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چکیده
METASTATIC caneer to the heart assumes greater diagnostic and therapeutic importance as the incidence of cancer rises. The condition evidently was first described by Boneti in 1700.1 A report in the English literature appeared in 1822 of a case of testicular cancer with tumor filling the vena eava and extending to the edge of the Eustachian valve.2 Subsequent reports described metastases to all parts of the heart from many types of cancer arising from almost every organ of the body.3 8 Characteristically, authors nmentioned the paucity or coniplete absence of symptoms, often despite extensive involvement of the heart by tumor. The first correct antemortem diagnosis of cancer in the heart was reported in 1913, but nlot until 1930 did reports of this nature appear in the English literature.9 10 Comparatively few articles have been written on treatment and the effects of treatment on caneer metastatic to the heart."1-'3
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