title: Left Ventricular Metastasis in Neuroblastoma: A Case Report.
abstract: Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children. Most common sites of metastases from neuroblastoma are bone marrow, bone and lymph nodes, however cardiac metastasis is rarely seen. Metastatic cardiac tumors are 20 to 40 times more common than primary cardiac tumors. Mechanism of cardiac metastasis can be hematogenous, lymphatogenous, and direct extension/infiltration of tumor cells. Usually right heart metastasis is seen. Left ventricular metastatic tumor has never been reported with neuroblastoma.
authors.affiliation: *Congenital Heart Center, Department of Pediatrics †Department of Pediatrics ‡Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
authors.forename: Dipankar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Meera
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Srikanthan
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lagmay
authors.forename: Jennifer G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Co-Vu
mesh_terms: D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000556:secondary*