A Metastatic Ball Tumor in the Right Atrium Originating from Esophageal Cancer: Report of a Case
| Autor: | Hayao Nakatani, Naoki Saegusa, Kiyoharu Nakano, Tamotsu Imai, Akihiko Gomi, Yoshitsugu Nakamura, Shoji Matsuya |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Esophageal Neoplasms business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged Esophageal cancer medicine.disease Thrombocytopenia Sudden death Metastasis Surgery Heart Neoplasms Surgical oncology Carcinoma Squamous Cell Carcinoma Humans Medicine Ventricular outflow tract Female Platelet Heart Atria Fresh frozen plasma business |
| Zdroj: | Surgery Today. 35:145-148 |
| ISSN: | 1436-2813 0941-1291 |
| Popis: | A metastatic ball tumor in the right atrium originating from esophageal cancer is extremely rare. A 53-year-old woman had two such tumors without any other types of metastasis. These tumors were associated with severe thrombocytopenia caused by the consumption of platelets. Even after repeated transfusions of platelets and fresh frozen plasma, the thrombocytopenia could not be controlled. Therefore, a surgical resection was performed to improve the thrombocytopenia and avoid sudden death due to a complete obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract by the tumor. As the throm-bocytopenia did not recur postoperatively, the patient was discharged from hospital. She died, however, of multiple metastases with bilateral pleural effusions 5 months after the surgery. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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