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Solitary right ventricle metastasis by renal cell carcinoma. |
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| Authors: | Mitsuru Masaki Tadashi Kuroda Naoki Hosen Hisao Hirota Kazuo Terai Yuichi Oshima Yoshikazu Nakaoka Shoko Sugiyama Ryusuke Kimura Satoshi Yoshihara Manabu Kawakami Norishige Iizuka Yasuhiko Tomita Hiroyasu Ogawa Ichiro Kawase Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara |
| Institution: | Department of Molecular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan. |
| Abstract: | A 57-year-old man with a history of renal cell carcinoma presented with presyncope. He underwent nephrectomy years earlier followed by HLA-matched allogeneic peripheral-blood stem-cell transplantation. Echocardiographic investigation revealed a solitary right ventricle mass without contiguous vena caval or right atrial involvement. The mass was pathologically confirmed to be metastatic carcinoma in the right ventricular cavity. This case highlights the need to consider an underlying neoplastic syndrome in patients presenting isolated right ventricle mass by echocardiography. |
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