title: Left atrial extension of a Wilms' tumor.
abstract: Isolated involvement of the left heart chambers by metastases of malignant tumors is extremely rare. We report a case of an 8-year-old child, with a left atrial metastasis of a Wilms' tumor detected in a control nuclear magnetic resonance 1 year after left inferior lobectomy for metastatic extension of the kidney tumor, which was diagnosed 4 years earlier. The metastasis was excised en bloc with a disc of the posterior left atrial wall.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal.
authors.forename: Gonçalo F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Coutinho
authors.forename: Fátima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Heitor
authors.forename: Pedro E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Antunes
authors.forename: Manuel J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Antunes
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D009396:Wilms Tumor / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy