Right ventricular metastasis of leiomyosarcoma.
Metastatic presentation of leiomyosarcoma in the heart is very rare. We present transthoracic echocardiography and combined PET/CT images of a case with a large right ventricular metastasis of leiomyosarcoma. The patient was placed on cytostatic drugs for palliative purposes, but passed away one month later because of an untreatable ventricular tackycardia.
Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. magnus.dencker@skane.se
Magnus
M
Dencker
Sven
S
Valind
Martin
M
Stagmo
D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed