RESUMO
We present a case of carcinoid heart disease and cardiac metastases discovered during a myocardial infarction in a 64 years-old woman who was treated for carcinod of the thymus. The patient died eight months after the diagnosis and we present the result of the autopsy. From the study of this case we review the knowledge related to carcinoïd disease and those associated with cardiac metastases.
Assuntos
Doença Cardíaca Carcinoide/complicações , Tumor Carcinoide/secundário , Neoplasias Cardíacas/secundário , Feminino , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Neoplasias do Timo/patologiaRESUMO
The authors present two cases of a specific variety of malignant non Hodgkin's lymphoma large B cell, characterised by an initial localisation in the anterior mediastinum where the tumors were adhesive and infiltrating, by the fact they appear, most of the time, in young women, by their usual resistance to treatment and by the presence of severe fibrosis on histological examination.