title: Small Intestinal Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Metastasis in the Left Ventricle.
abstract: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs) are rare and usually appear in childhood and adolescence. These tumors often take a benign course, but tend to reoccur in a quarter of cases and metastasize locally. Distant IMT metastases are extremely uncommon. To our knowledge, metastatic spread to the heart has not been reported. We present a case of a 43-year-old woman with small intestinal IMT metastatic spread to the cavity of the left ventricle, stomach, liver, vertebra, and pelvic bones. The cardiac tumor was resected, and the patient survived for 9 months. She dies because the progression of IMT at other sites.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Heart Surgery Centre, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania. Electronic address: aleksejus.zorinas@santa.lt.
authors.forename: Aleksejus
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zorinas
authors.affiliation: Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Donatas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Austys
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Heart Surgery Centre, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Vilius
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Janusauskas
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, National Institute of Cancer, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Mantas
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trakymas
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tamulionyte
authors.affiliation: National Center of Pathology, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Dmitrij
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Seinin
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Heart Surgery Centre, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Rimantas
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Karalius
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Heart Surgery Centre, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Audrius
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aidietis
authors.affiliation: Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Rimantas
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stukas
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Heart Surgery Centre, Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Kestutis
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rucinskas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D007421:Intestine, Small; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis