Right ventricular metastasis of transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis: successful single stage surgical treatment.
A 58-year-old female presented with symptoms mimicking infective endocarditis and was diagnosed with a right ventricular metastasis from a transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the left renal pelvis. The patient was treated with concurrent removal of the cardiac tumour and radical left nephrectomy followed by adjuvant gemcitabine-cisplatin chemotherapy. To our knowledge, this is the 14th report of cardiac metastases from TCC and the only case where one-stage surgical management of primary and cardiac metastases from TCC has been successfully completed.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, King's College London School of Medicine and Dentistry, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK. adrian.shields@kcl.ac.uk
Adrian M
AM
Shields
Sabine
S
Pomplun
Ranjit
R
Deshpande
Donald C
DC
Whitaker
D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods; D035583:Rare Diseases; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome