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Clinical cardiac complications of malignancy are relatively uncommon, although at autopsy heart metastases develop in 10 percent of patients with malignant neoplasms. With some tumor types, cardiac metastases may be present in over 60 percent of patients at postmortem examination. The most common tumors involving the heart are bronchogenic carcinoma by direct contiguous involvement and breast cancer by hematogenous dissemination (Table 3.1). Only 10 percent of patients with neoplasms to the heart develop clinical cardiac dysfunction. Almost 85 percent of the patients with neoplastic cardiac involvement have involvement of the pericardium with or without invasion into the myocardium; therefore, the predominant clinical manifestation of cardiac metastases is the development of a malignant pericardial effusion.
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Lokich, J. (1980). Cardiac Complications of Malignancy. In: Lokich, J.J. (eds) Clinical Cancer Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7235-6_3
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