Key result
A 55-year-old male with COPD presenting with dyspnea was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma invading the left atrium and died 3 months after diagnosis despite chemotherapy.
Design
Case report
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Alerts clinicians to rapid fatality risk in rare cardiac-invasive lung SCC; leaves open optimal management strategies.
Case Report (n=1)
This case highlights a rare presentation of squamous cell lung carcinoma directly invading the left atrium and presenting as an intracardiac mass in a patient with dyspnea.
Keskin et al. (2023) conducted a case report in Squamous cell carcinoma with cardiac invasion (n=1). Paclitaxel, carboplatin, and anticoagulant therapy was evaluated on Clinical outcome. A 55-year-old male with COPD presenting with dyspnea was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma invading the left atrium and died 3 months after diagnosis despite chemotherapy.
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