title: Renal cell carcinoma with tumor-thrombus extension into the right ventricle.
abstract: Renal cell carcinoma is a tumor with the distinct feature that it can invade through the renal vein into the inferior vena cava, and can grow intravascularly, sometimes extending into right cardiac chambers. Surgical resection provides the only reasonable chance for a cure, and cardiopulmonary bypass with hypothermic circulatory arrest is used to resect an intracardiac extension of the tumor because the tumor-thrombus adhered strongly to the hepatic vein and to the endocardium of the right atrium (RA). We present 2 patients, with renal cell carcinoma extending into the right ventricle, who have lived for more than five years after the operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujigaoka Hospital Showa University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Kenichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: Daijiro
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: Yohei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
keywords: cardiopulmonary bypass; hypothermic circulatory arrest; renal cell carcinoma
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