Heart metastasis

Cardiac metastasis refers to the metastasis of the whole body to the heart through various routes. A tumor grows here, called a heart metastasis, and was first reported by Heketoen in 1893. Compared with liver, lung, or brain, tumors have less probability of metastasizing to the heart and clinical manifestations are often not obvious, but their significance is related to their ability to resemble more common heart diseases and sometimes fatal due to heart metastases.