Sudden death due to myocardial metastasis of lingual squamous cell carcinoma

Abstract Cardiac metastases are rare events encountered in pathological practice but with often dramatic fatal outcome. Among malignancies associated with cardiac involvement, we would like to draw the attention of clinicians about lingual squamous cell carcinoma by reporting a sudden cardiac death...

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Published inCardiovascular pathology Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 242 - 243
Main Authors Duband, Sébastien, Paysant, François, Scolan, Virginie, Forest, Fabien, Péoc'h, Michel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.07.2011
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - pathology
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - secondary
Cardiac metastasis
Death, Sudden, Cardiac - etiology
Death, Sudden, Cardiac - pathology
Female
Heart Neoplasms - pathology
Heart Neoplasms - secondary
Humans
Lingual squamous cell carcinoma
Middle Aged
Pathology
Sudden cardiac death
Tongue cancer
Tongue Neoplasms - pathology
Tongue cancer
Cardiac metastasis
Sudden cardiac death
Lingual squamous cell carcinoma
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Summary:Abstract Cardiac metastases are rare events encountered in pathological practice but with often dramatic fatal outcome. Among malignancies associated with cardiac involvement, we would like to draw the attention of clinicians about lingual squamous cell carcinoma by reporting a sudden cardiac death in a 57-year-old woman without prior symptom and considered in remission 1 month before her death. The forensic autopsy led to the diagnosis emphasizing its role in epidemiology and public health.
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ISSN:1054-8807
1879-1336
DOI:10.1016/j.carpath.2010.07.002