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Pericardial metastases in a long-surviving patient with sigmoid carcinoma
Sara Lattuada1, Chiara Saggia, Gabriele Biaggi
1Unità Operativa di Oncologia Medica, Ospedale S Andrea, Vercelli, Italy. saralattuada1@virgilio.it
Tumori
|April 27, 2005
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.

