¹Amal El Ouarradi,²Ilham Bensahi,³Fatimazzahra Merzouk,⁴Zineb Guennoun,⁵Mohamed Sabry

¹Department of cardiology. Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences, Cheikh Khalifa Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco
0000-0001-7341-0471

²Department of cardiology. Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences, Cheikh Khalifa Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco
0000-0003-3540-5043

³Department of cardiology. Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences, Cheikh Khalifa Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco
0000-0003-4920-5624

⁴Department of cardiology. Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences, Cheikh Khalifa Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco
0000-0002-8742-3334

⁵Department of cardiology. Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences, Cheikh Khalifa Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco
0000-0002-4203-9152

The invasive lobular carcinomas are the second type of cancer Invasive breast cancer after invasive ductal and account for over 20% of invasive breast cancer. Metastasis from primary cancer to the myocardium is uncommon in lobular breast cancer. Here we present a case of lobular breast carcinoma that metastased to the myocardium.

Cardiac metastasis, Lobular Breast Carcinoma, Echocardiography, PET CT

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