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Case reports

Intracardiac renal cell carcinoma metastasis

^a AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Chirurgie Cardio-Vasculaire, France
^b AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, France
^c Université Paris V, Faculté de Médecine, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France

Received 28 December 2007; received in revised form 13 May 2008; accepted 21 May 2008.

^_* Corresponding author. Address: Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Chirurgie Cardio-Vasculaire, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France. Tel.: +33 6 08046385; fax: +33 1 48955230. (Email: frederic.cochennec{at}wanadoo.fr).

Cardiac involvement by intravascular protruding renal cell carcinoma is a well-recognised phenomenon. It most commonly occurs through inferior vena cava extension. Here, we report a case of a lower lobar lung metastasis from renal cell carcinoma involving the left atrium via the inferior pulmonary vein in a patient presenting with von Hippel–Lindau disease. Complete surgical resection was achieved under cardiopulmonary bypass.

Key Words: Lung • Cancer • Metastasis • Cardiac intervention • Surgery