The heart is not too noble to host a metastatic tumor! A right ventricle metastasis of a transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder

Urine analysis was positive for erythrocytes and leukocytes, which confirmed the diagnosis of urinary tract infection. There was a 5 cm wide cystic lesion in the anterior mediastinum, adjacent to the left lung and the large blood vessels, histologically a WHO type A thymoma (with cystic change). Tum...

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Veröffentlicht in:Netherlands heart journal 2015-01, Vol.23 (1), p.74-76
Hauptverfasser: Selder, J. L., van Dekken, H., de Voogt, W. G.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Urine analysis was positive for erythrocytes and leukocytes, which confirmed the diagnosis of urinary tract infection. There was a 5 cm wide cystic lesion in the anterior mediastinum, adjacent to the left lung and the large blood vessels, histologically a WHO type A thymoma (with cystic change). Tumours with relatively frequent cardiac metastases are in descending order: carcinomas of the lung, the breast and the oesophagus, malignant lymphoma, leukaemia, and malignant melanoma [4].
ISSN:1568-5888
1876-6250
DOI:10.1007/s12471-011-0212-3