Affiliation:
1. From the Department of Pathology, New York Hospital, New York, N.Y.
Abstract
A review of the literature of metastatic cancer to the heart is presented, and a new classification offered.
Autopsy data of The New York Hospital have been analyzed. In the 7-year period, 1947 to 1953, in 694 deaths from cancer, an over-all incidence of 18.3 per cent (127 cases) of metastases to the heart was observed. In a group of 169 cases of lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma, there was an incidence of 36 per cent (61 cases) of metastases to the heart. In the remaining 525 cases, there was an incidence of 12.6 per cent (66 cases) of metastases to the heart. In 61 of these, gross lesions were present, an incidence of 11.6 per cent (61 cases) of gross metastases to the heart. These figures are comparable to those reported in other series.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Reference66 articles.
1. TEDESCHI A.: Beitrag zum Studium der Herzgeschwiilste. Prag. nmed. wvchnschr. 18: 121 1893.
2. Case of a singular tumor within the vena cava and attached to the Eustachian valve;COATES B. H.;Philadelphia J. M. & Phys. Soc.,1822
3. Reticulum cell sarcoma with cardiac metastasis
4. Metastatic Tumors of the Heart
5. Case of sarcomatous degeneration of uterine leiomyoma with metastases to Iungs and heart;CRISCITIELLO M.;Am. J. Cancer,1933
Cited by
302 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献