Why the study?
Cardiac metastases are very rare, often clinically silent, and usually detected post-mortem, with few antemortem cases reported.
Highlights the rarity of asymptomatic cardiac metastases from esophageal cancer and suggests echocardiographic evaluation even in asymptomatic patients.
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Rare asymptomatic cardiac metastasis from esophageal cancer documented; hypothesis-generating for imaging surveillance in advanced malignancy.
Signorelli et al. (2019) studied this question.
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