Open AccessCardiac metastasis and right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid
Author(s) -
Rao Mugula Sudhakar,
Seshadri Sneha,
Tom Devasia,
Lakshmi Rao
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
medical journal of dr. d y patil university/medical journal of dr. d.y. patil university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7119
pISSN - 0975-2870
DOI - 10.4103/0975-2870.160809
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , metastasis , anaplastic carcinoma , carcinoma , thyroid , thyroid carcinoma , oncology , pathology , radiology , cancer
Cardiac metastasis is more frequent than primary tumors, with low absolute incidence reported. Cardiac metastases are common secondary to malignant melanoma, carcinoma of the lung, lymphoma, and carcinoma of the breast. Cardiac metastasis secondary to thyroid carcinoma is very uncommon. Among the thyroid malignancies, anaplastic carcinoma is the most aggressive and metastases to the heart has rarely been described in the literature. We report a case of a 60-year-old female with right ventricular outflow tract obstruction secondary to anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid. An extensive literature search till date was unfruitful in finding a similar case. Thus, we focus the importance of regular echocardiography screening for all cases of thyroid malignancy, especially anaplastic carcinoma for recognizing cardiac involvement antemortem rather than postmortem