[Atypical pulmonary embolism in a patient with renal cell carcinoma].
We present a rare case of pulmonary embolism in a patient with disseminated hypernephroma. Necropsy showed a large tumor thrombus in the right ventricle. Modern chemotherapy treatments, whilst improving patient's life expectancy to a certain degree don't hinder the spread of metastases which appear then in areas not previously known of. Providing there are no obvious signs of peripheral thrombi and to exclude intracardiac metastases, we recommend echocardiography for all cancer patients with pulmonary emboli.
Schaer
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Medizinische Abteilung, St. Claraspital Basel.
Allemann
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Ludwig
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C
D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000473:pathology*