Free-floating tumor thrombus in the left atrium associated with non-small cell lung cancer.
A free-floating tumor thrombus in the left atrium is an unusual metastasis of non-small cell lung cancer. Surgical resection of free-floating tumor thrombus prior to adjuvant therapy relieves cardiac symptoms such as exertional dyspnea, and prevents life-threatening complications including systemic embolization, mitral obstruction, or sudden death.
Ucak
Alper
A
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, GATA Haydarpasa Education Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Inan
Kaan
K
Onan
Burak
B
Temizkan
Veysel
V
Alp
Ibrahim
I
Yilmaz
Ahmet Turan
AT
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D010166:Palliative Care; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed