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. 2015 Jan;23(1):74-6.
doi: 10.1007/s12471-011-0212-3.

The heart is not too noble to host a metastatic tumor! A right ventricle metastasis of a transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder

J L Selder  1 , H van Dekken, W G de Voogt
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The heart is not too noble to host a metastatic tumor! A right ventricle metastasis of a transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder

J L Selder et al. Neth Heart J. 2015 Jan.
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Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
CT-thorax showing bilateral intrapulmonary consolidation, pericardial and pleural effusion and a 5 cm wide cyst in the lung left and ventral of the mediastinum close to the left hilus
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Transthoracic echocardiography which shows a non-dilated good functioning left and right ventricle with thickened pericardium (10 mm) and pericardial effusion (10 mm). A mass in the free wall of right ventricular outflow tract is visible, with a long intracardial mobile structure reaching up to the pulmonary valve
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Macroscopic image of a transverse section of the heart showing a white metastatic tumour mass in the right ventricle (arrow)
Fig. 4
Fig. 4
Microscopic image (5× objective). Histology of the metastatic tumour mass illustrating polymorphic tumour cells infiltrating between cardiac muscle cells and fatty tissue of the right ventricle
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