title: [Echocardiography as a first diagnostic step in kidney tumours].
abstract: Intracardiac tumours are usually found after clinical symptoms lead to a positive imaging study, or as an incidental finding of imaging study, usually echocardiography. Cardiac tumours range from non-neoplastic lesions to high grade malignancies. The majority of primary cardiac tumours are myxomas (in 75% cases) or sarcomas (about 10% cases). In this paper we present cases of 2 patients with right atrial tumour, extending from renal carcinoma, invading renal vein and inferior vena cava into right atrium. Two different therapeutic strategies were undertaken in those patients.
authors.affiliation: II Katedra Kardiologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi, Łódź. eszymczyk@ptkardio.pl
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Szymczyk
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lipiec
authors.forename: Błażej
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Michalski
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sadowski
authors.forename: Karol
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wierzbicki
authors.forename: Jarosław D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Kasprzak
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged