Two Unusual Sites of Colon Cancer Metastases and a Rare Thyroid Lymphoma

Cardiac Metastasis of Uterine Leiomyosarcoma: Case Report and Literature Review

“…They have several functions, guide the biopsy, and assess resectability of the tumor. For multi-metastatic disease, the biopsy cannot be done as the patient of this observation [7].…”

A Rare Case of Atrial Metastasis From a Rectal Adenocarcinoma

“…Metastatic cancers affecting the heart are relatively rare but do cite back to the 1940’s, showing up on autopsy reports approximately 10% of the time [ 1 - 3 ]. Cardiac metastases may be underestimated given that they are often clinically silent.…”

“…Although there is potential for any malignancy to metastasize to the heart, colorectal cancers typically metastasize to the lymph nodes, liver or lungs, usually by lymphatic or hematogenous spread [ 3 - 5 ]. Other unusual sites of metastases from colorectal cancers have been reported in the literature, such as to the spleen, skeletal muscle and thyroid gland [ 6 - 8 ].…”

“…Other unusual sites of metastases from colorectal cancers have been reported in the literature, such as to the spleen, skeletal muscle and thyroid gland [ 6 - 8 ]. Although a few cases of cardiac metastases from colon cancer are described in the literature [ 3 , 4 , 9 - 11 ], cases of metastatic rectal cancer to the heart are far fewer. In fact, we found only three such well-documented cases of cardiac metastasis from rectal adenocarcinoma in the literature [ 12 - 14 ].…”

An unusual case of high central venous pressure

“…[1,3,4] Cardiac malignancies take their course so fast that patients are often asymptomatic. [4,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] The present case represents another evidence that colon malignancies may affect the right heart, so that a suspicion has to be held when treating patients with reported colon cancer who present with abnormal findings related to heart involvement. [1,5] Metastatic tumors of the heart occur more often than primary ones; however, infiltration of the right heart by a metastatic colon cancer is not common.…”