Why the study?
Cardiac metastases are more prevalent than primary cardiac tumors and their incidence is anticipated to increase, but current incidence estimates from solid tumors in adult autopsies were needed.
Cardiac metastasis from solid tumors is a rare occurrence (4.71% incidence in autopsies), most commonly originating from lung cancer and involving the pericardium in the setting of massive metastatic dissemination.
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Reinforces rarity of cardiac metastases from solid tumors; leaves open role of routine cardiac imaging in high-risk cancers.
Nova‐Camacho et al. (2022) studied this question.
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