Cardiac Metastases and a Sudden Death as a Complication of Advanced Stage of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Marcel Marjanović, Kavanagh; Sasa, Janjanin; Drago, Prgomet
- Source
- Collegium antropologicum
Volume 36 supplement 2
Issue 2
- Subject
- Heart Neoplasms
Death, Sudden
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Humans
cardiac metastases
sudden death
head neck cancer
tongue
Neoplasm Metastasis
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1848-9486
0350-6134
In head and neck squamous cell carcinoma distant metastases are rare and metastases to the heart are extremely rare. In this report we present a patient with a sublingual and laryngeal carcinoma with metastases to lung and heart. Cardiac metastases present with non-specific symptoms that depends on the size and location of the metastases. The ideal tools for diagnosing cardiac metastases are echocardiography and cardiac MRI. CT scan could be used as a screening method of distant metastases in head and neck cancer. The treatment of cardiac metastases is generally ineffective.