A Case of Multiple Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma in an Adult Patient Presenting with Ventricular Tachycardia.
10.4070/kcj.2005.35.4.341
- Author:
Min Jeong KWON
1
;
Dong Soo KIM
;
Ae Ran KIM
;
Dong Kie KIM
;
Ki Hyang KIM
;
Kyeong Im JO
;
Dae Kyeong KIM
;
Doo Il KIM
;
Chan Hwan KIM
Author Information
1. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Inje University, Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea. dongskim@inje.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Ventricular tachycardia;
Right ventricular mass;
Renal cell carcinoma
- MeSH:
Adult*;
Biopsy;
Carcinoma, Renal Cell*;
Echocardiography;
Heart Ventricles;
Humans;
Kidney;
Lung;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Middle Aged;
Neoplasm Metastasis;
Polyps;
Stomach;
Tachycardia, Ventricular*;
Thorax;
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- From:Korean Circulation Journal
2005;35(4):341-344
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Cardiac metastases of renal cell carcinomas are rare, and usually clinically silent. A case of a 53-year-old man without a significant medical history, who presented with ventricular tachycardia, which resulted in a cardiac mass of the right ventricle is reported. On chest X-ray, echocardiography, CT scanning, esophagogastroduode-noscopy and MRI, multiple metastatic masses were observed in both lungs, and the kidneys, adrenal, stomach and right ventricle. The kidney mass and the gastric polyp were revealed on biopsy to be a renal cell carcinoma mixed with sarcomatoid and conventional types.
