title: Cardiac metastasis of renal cell carcinoma without inferior vena cava involvement: case report.
abstract: We report the case of a 51-year-old man with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), without inferior vena cava (IVC) involvement, who was treated with chemotherapy. Computed tomography of the thorax and abdomen revealed metastatic invasion of the liver, mediastinal lymph nodes, right adrenal gland, and the head of pancreas. Heart involvement via the IVC is a well-known pattern of metastasis during RCC progression. There are very few cases worldwide that have reported RCC with cardiac metastasis without IVC involvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Melih
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Topçuoğlu
authors.forename: Yakup
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yeşilkaya
authors.forename: Abidin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kılınçer
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior