title: Metastatic Rectal Adenocarcinoma Presenting as a Giant Left Atrial Mass: Resection Combined With Right Lower Lobectomy.
abstract: Pulmonary metastasis due to rectal adenocarcinoma is common, noted to be 5.8% in 5 years in patients presenting with rectal adenocarcinoma. However, direct extension into the cardiac chambers is rare. Here we describe an unusual presentation of metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Janani S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Reisenauer
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address: said.sameh@mayo.edu.
authors.forename: Sameh M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Said
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed