title: Large left ventricular metastasis in patient with liposarcoma.
abstract: : Metastases to the heart and pericardium are rare. We present a 44-year-old male with pleural dedifferentiated liposarcoma and multiple metastases, with no previous cardiological history and/or cardiac symptoms. A transthoracic echocardiogram during the advanced stage of disease showed a lobulated, large and mobile mass, with homogeneous echogenicity, attached to the basal posterior wall of the left ventricle via a broad base and with intracavitary growth. This mass extends to inferolateral and inferoseptal wall of the left ventricle.
authors: U.O.C. di Cardiologia, Scuola di Specializzazione in Malattie dell'Apparato Cardiovascolare, A.O.U.P. 'P. Giaccone', Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
authors: Gregory
authors: G
authors: Dendramis
authors: Daniela
authors: D
authors: Di Lisi
authors: Claudia
authors: C
authors: Paleologo
authors: Giuseppina
authors: G
authors: Novo
authors: Salvatore
authors: S
authors: Novo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D018450:Disease Progression; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D047368:Tumor Burden