CASE REPORTS  CARDIAC SECTION 

The journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2004 December;45(6):573-6

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language: English

Solitary cardiac metastasis from a clear cell carcinoma of the kidney. a case report and review of the literature

Zattera G. F., Alloni A., D’Armini A. M., Rinaldi M., Grande A. M., Viganò M.

Unit of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

A case of solitary septal metastasis from a clear cell carcinoma of the kidney is reported in a 55-year-old man who 5 years before had undergone right nephrectomy and adrenalectomy. Since then, he had been successfully treated by means of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or operated on, at almost yearly intervals, for secondary pancreatic, pulmonary and cerebral single metastases. Diagnosis was obtained by routine computed tomography. The septal mass was surgically removed and the patient was discharged on the 4th postoperative day.