An autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left hand
We here report a 60-year-old woman in whom autopsy revealed a metastasis in the right cardiac ventricle from a well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the left hand. The tumors in the myocardium and left hand were both well-differentiated SCCs with keratinization and sporadic keratin pe...
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doaj-2eab9b52732a433f87865253ec7d530b2020-11-24T23:26:37ZengSpringerOpenEgyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences2090-536X2016-12-016450951210.1016/j.ejfs.2016.05.002An autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left handT. Kondo0M. Takahashi1A. Kuse2M. Morichika3K. Nakagawa4M. Sakurada5R.H. Kaszynski6M. Sugimoto7M. Asano8Y. Ueno9Division of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanDivision of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanDivision of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanDivision of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanDivision of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanDivision of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanDivision of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanDivision of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanDepartment of Legal Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, JapanDivision of Legal Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Social Health Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, JapanWe here report a 60-year-old woman in whom autopsy revealed a metastasis in the right cardiac ventricle from a well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the left hand. The tumors in the myocardium and left hand were both well-differentiated SCCs with keratinization and sporadic keratin pearls. High concentrations of heart failure markers together with a pericardial effusion suggested antemortem chronic heart failure. Our case is particularly unusual because there were no regional lymph node metastases and the cardiac metastasis was not one of multiple metastases; thus, hematogenous metastasis to the right side of the heart alone had occurred.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090536X16300120Squamous cell carcinomaCardiac metastasisHematogenous |
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T. Kondo M. Takahashi A. Kuse M. Morichika K. Nakagawa M. Sakurada R.H. Kaszynski M. Sugimoto M. Asano Y. Ueno An autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left hand Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences Squamous cell carcinoma Cardiac metastasis Hematogenous |
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T. Kondo M. Takahashi A. Kuse M. Morichika K. Nakagawa M. Sakurada R.H. Kaszynski M. Sugimoto M. Asano Y. Ueno |
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An autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left hand |
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An autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left hand |
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An autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left hand |
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An autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left hand |
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An autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left hand |
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autopsy case of right ventricular cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the left hand |
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Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences |
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2090-536X |
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We here report a 60-year-old woman in whom autopsy revealed a metastasis in the right cardiac ventricle from a well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the left hand. The tumors in the myocardium and left hand were both well-differentiated SCCs with keratinization and sporadic keratin pearls. High concentrations of heart failure markers together with a pericardial effusion suggested antemortem chronic heart failure. Our case is particularly unusual because there were no regional lymph node metastases and the cardiac metastasis was not one of multiple metastases; thus, hematogenous metastasis to the right side of the heart alone had occurred. |
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Squamous cell carcinoma Cardiac metastasis Hematogenous |
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