A Patient with a Massive Single Cardiac Metastasis of Lung Adenocarcinoma, Diagnosed via a Biopsy: A Case Report.

A Patient with a Massive Single Cardiac Metastasis of Lung Adenocarcinoma, Diagnosed via a Biopsy: A Case Report. Intern Med. 2018 Jan 11;: Authors: Oyakawa T, Muraoka N, Iida K, Kusuhara M, Naito T Abstract A patient with a history of lung adenocarcinoma was admitted because of palpitation. Transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a mass (74×42 mm) in the right ventricle. Computed tomography showed a tumor lesion in the right ventricular cavity but no other distant metastasis. Coronary angiography revealed well-developed small branches to the tumor. After right heart catheterization, a pathological analysis of a tumor biopsy demonstrated adenocarcinoma. We diagnosed the patient with right ventricular metastasis of lung cancer. With large cardiac metastasis, a tumor biopsy with a right heart catheter may help obtain a pathological diagnosis and also serve as a re-biopsy to confirm the gene mutation status. PMID: 29321403 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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