Renal cell carcinoma presenting as right atrial mass.
Approximately 190 new cases of renal cell carcinoma infiltrate into the inferior vena cava and right atrium every year. Echocardiography often plays a major role in establishing the diagnosis and in guiding surgical therapy. This report describes a patient who presented with shortness of breath but had no classic signs or symptoms of renal cell carcinoma other than chronic anemia. Transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography established the diagnosis of a right atrial mass extending from the inferior vena cava that was later discovered to be renal cell carcinoma.
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Division of Cardiology, Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic, Scott, Sherwood and Brindley Foundation, Texas A & M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, USA.
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D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed