title: Left Ventricular Metastasis from a Primary Pancreatobiliary Tumor.
abstract: Metastatic disease to the heart is not uncommon. We describe a case of a man in his 60s with an unusual metastasis to the heart and detail its intracardiac location by means of cardiac computerized tomography (CCT) and transthoracic echocardiography. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a pancreatobiliary tumor metastasizing exclusively to the left ventricle (LV) of the heart.
authors.affiliation: North Shore-LIJ Health System, Hofstra NSLIJ School of Medicine, New York, USA. ; Department of Cardiology, NuHealth, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Amgad N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Makaryus
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York and Department of Radiology, Englewood Hospital Medical Center, Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Boxt
keywords: cardiac computed tomography; cardiac mass; cardiac tumor; echocardiography