Atrial Metastasis of Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Presentation

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is an aggressive and lethal tumor that has a high frequency of metastatic spread to unpredictable sites. One quarter of patients have either distant metastases or significant local-regional disease with atypical symptoms on presentation. We present a 41-year-old patient wi...

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Autores principales: Shah, Shilpi, Vinod, Poornima, Khayata, Mohamed, Lane, Jason L., Hegde, Vinayak, Raina, Rupesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5997440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29904457
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cr690w
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Sumario:Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is an aggressive and lethal tumor that has a high frequency of metastatic spread to unpredictable sites. One quarter of patients have either distant metastases or significant local-regional disease with atypical symptoms on presentation. We present a 41-year-old patient with symptoms of right heart failure and was found to have metastatic renal cell carcinoma with enhancing tumor from left renal vein up to right atrium.

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