Transesophageal echocardiography of right atrial metastasis of a hepatocellular carcinoma

Chest. 1994 Mar;105(3):945-7. doi: 10.1378/chest.105.3.945.

Abstract

Antemortem diagnosis of cardiac metastases of a hepatocellular carcinoma is rarely observed. In a 52-year-old female patient with a history of posthepatitic cirrhosis and partial hepatectomy, transthoracic echocardiography brought to light a mass in the right atrium. After location and characterization of the tumor by transesophageal echocardiography, a transvenous biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of metastasis of a hepatocellular carcinoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / secondary*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
  • Female
  • Heart Atria
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Middle Aged