1. Giant metastatic intrapericardial tumor 20 years after nephrectomy.
- Author
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Juraszynski Z, Szpakowski E, and Biederman A
- Subjects
- Aged, Carcinoma, Renal Cell surgery, Heart Neoplasms surgery, Humans, Kidney Neoplasms surgery, Male, Nephrectomy, Pericardium surgery, Carcinoma, Renal Cell secondary, Heart Neoplasms secondary, Kidney Neoplasms pathology, Pericardium pathology
- Abstract
We present a rare case of giant, metastatic renal cell carcinoma of the pericardium diagnosed 20 years after nephrectomy. An endovascular procedure was used to place coils preoperatively in the large collateral vessels supplying the tumor to achieve mass reduction and reduce intraoperative bleeding. The tumor was resected through a median sternotomy, and the patient's recovery was uneventful. Preoperative coil placement in the tumoral arteries enabled a safe and bloodless resection in this rare presentation., (Copyright 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2010
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