Right Cardiac Chambers Involvement by a Malignant Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: An Imaging-pathologic Correlation

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• 作者：Felipe Barjud Pereira do Nascimento^a ; ^{fbpnascimento@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Lilian Albieri^b ; Glaucia Aparecida Bento dos Santos^a ; Marisa Dolhnikoff^c ; on behalf of BIAS (Brazilian Imaging ; Autopsy Study)¹
• 刊名：Urology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：93
• 期：Complete
• 页码：e9-e11
• 全文大小：1270 K

文摘

The cardiac chamber's involvement with neoplastic embolism has been rarely reported; it is mostly associated with gastric, breast, lung, liver, and prostate cancers, and usually affects the pulmonary arteries. This paper reports a case of a 31-year-old man with a malignant testicular germ cell tumor who presented with multiple episodes of pulmonary thromboembolism and died of sudden respiratory failure 1 year after the initial diagnosis. Death was attributed to massive pulmonary embolism and pulmonary infarction associated with a neoplastic thrombus that extended from the gonadal veins to pulmonary arteries. A postmortem computerized tomographic angiography and autopsy confirmed this finding.