Intraventricular photon deficiency in gated cardiac blood pool imaging due to left ventricular metastases from renal cell carcinoma.
Cardiac metastasis can occur with any widely disseminated malignancy, especially from carcinoma of the kidney, stomach, lung, breast, or from melanocarcinoma. Metastasis to the myocardium can protrude from the endocardium into the intraventricular cavity of the left ventricle. We present a case of renal cell carcinoma and left ventricle cavitary metastases, documented by an echocardiogram demonstrated in a cardiac blood pool study as a photon-deficient area in the left ventricle cavity.
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Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs, Medical Center, Lexington 40536-0084.
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D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004912:Erythrocytes; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013667:Technetium
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