Left atrial metastasis of a Wilms' tumor: A rare occurrence
Indira Sahu1, Manish Ruhela2, Rakesh K Ola2
1Department of Pathology, SMS Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
|October 28, 2020
Abstract:
Isolated involvement of the left atrium by metastasis of malignant tumors is extremely rare. Here, we report a rare case of a 6-year-old male child with left atrial metastasis of Wilms' tumor detected in transthoracic 2 D echocardiography 3 years after nephrectomy. Intra atrial extension of Wilms' tumor occurs in only about 1-3% cases and its isolated metastasis to left heart in the absence of vena cava extension is extremely rare, so we present a unique case.
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