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Case Reports
. 2005 Jan-Feb;91(1):101-2.
doi: 10.1177/030089160509100122.

Pericardial metastases in a long-surviving patient with sigmoid carcinoma

Sara Lattuada  1 , Chiara Saggia, Gabriele Biaggi, Alberto Santagostino, Giorgio Forti, Domenico Manachino, Luciano Bellan, Maria Cristina Pollo, Oscar Alabiso
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Pericardial metastases in a long-surviving patient with sigmoid carcinoma

Sara Lattuada et al. Tumori. 2005 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

Cardiac metastases are rare in patients affected by colorectal cancer. This is the case of a woman who underwent a colon resection because of a metastatic sigmoid carcinoma, that survived for more than 6 years and died for malignant pericardial effusion.

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