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Donor Posterior Atrial Flap Rotation for Left Atrial Cuff Reconstruction in Lung Transplantation
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Left atrial extension of a Wilms' tumor
Gonçalo F Coutinho1, Fátima Heitor, Pedro E Antunes
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 27, 2005
Abstract:
Isolated involvement of the left heart chambers by metastases of malignant tumors is extremely rare. We report a case of an 8-year-old child, with a left atrial metastasis of a Wilms' tumor detected in a control nuclear magnetic resonance 1 year after left inferior lobectomy for metastatic extension of the kidney tumor, which was diagnosed 4 years earlier. The metastasis was excised en bloc with a disc of the posterior left atrial wall.
