title: Metastatic renal cell carcinoma to right ventricle without vena caval involvement.
abstract: Cardiac metastases from renal cell carcinoma without vena caval involvement are extremely rare. We report 49-year-old man who presented symptoms of heart failure and thrombocytopenia. Computed tomography and echocardiography revealed a left renal tumor and a right ventricular mass without vena caval involvement. His symptoms progressed rapidly and he died at nine days following diagnosis of the right ventricular tumor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Osaki Citizens' Hosptial, Miyagi, Japan. ipuipu_@ma.mni.ne.jp
authors.forename: Takuma
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Shigeyuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Numata
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged