DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2018.v06i08.029

Pages: 595-597

Cardiac tumors are very rare. Metastasis to the heart is an extremely uncommon condition but they occur comparatively more frequently as compared to the primary tumors of the heart. Metastases to the heart and pericardium are discovered at autopsy in 0.7-3.5% in the general population and upto about 9.1% in patients with some underlying malignancy. The clinical presentation of pericardial metastasis can be varied ranging from silent to prominent symptoms like cardiac tamponade or even sudden death. We have reported a rare case of pericardial metastasis diagnosed on post mortem histopathological examination of the heart alongwith primary tumor deposits of adenocarcinoma in the lung in a 50 year old male who according to the relatives died of an unknown illness.