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Renal Cell Carcinoma Presenting as Right Atrial Mass
Author(s) -
Crouch Eron D.,
Tak Tahir
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00149.x
Subject(s) - medicine , inferior vena cava , renal cell carcinoma , right atrium , radiology , carcinoma , cardiology , vena cava
Approximately 190 new cases of renal cell carcinoma infiltrate into the inferior vena cava and right atrium every year. Echocardiography often plays a major role in establishing the diagnosis and in guiding surgical therapy. This report describes a patient who presented with shortness of breath but had no classic signs or symptoms of renal cell carcinoma other than chronic anemia. Transthoracic two‐dimensional echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography established the diagnosis of a right atrial mass extending from the inferior vena cava that was later discovered to be renal cell carcinoma.