Both-sided intra-atrial intracardiac metastases as the initial presentation of testicular seminoma.
We report a case of a 41-year-old man admitted with respiratory distress and found to have masses in both atria of the heart and in the testicle. The patient received palliative radiotherapy to relieving obstruction of blood flow tract caused by the intracardiac masses, followed by radical orchiectomy. After the diagnosis of testicular seminoma, he was treated successfully with 4 cycles of systemic chemotherapy. This is a rare case that presented with metastatic testicular seminoma involving both atria of heart and causing symptomatic obstruction of blood flow tract.
Jo
Jae-Cheol
JC
Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ulsan, College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Lee
Dae Ho
DH
Kang
Byung Wook
BW
Lee
Sung Sook
SS
Sym
Sun Jin
SJ
Kim
Min Kyoung
MK
Ahn
Jin-Hee
JH
Lee
Jae-Lyun
JL
Kim
Sang-We
SW
Suh
Cheolwon
C
Kang
Yoon-Koo
YK
Lee
Jung-Shin
JS
D000328:Adult; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018239:Seminoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy