Shortness of breath caused by a right ventricular metastasis: a case report

Cardiac metastases normally Creflect diffuse metastatic spread of the primary tumour and are rarely found in isolation. We present a case of a 71-year-old man with a history of completely resected high-grade spindle cell sarcoma of the left thigh, who presented with shortness of breath, and was found to have a large right ventricular mass, subsequently diagnosed as a metastasis of the prior sarcoma. It was deemed inoperable and incurable, and the patient was offered palliative chemotherapy. Unfortunately, the patient died within four months of his original presentation.