A pulmonary mass with invasion into the heart

doi:10.1186/1477-7800-5-24

International Seminars in Surgical Oncology
Volume 5

Viewing options:

Abstract
Full text
PDF (643KB)

Associated material:

Related literature:

Articles citing this article
on Google Scholar
on PubMed Central
Other articles by authors
on Google Scholar

McLaughlin AM
O'Donnell RA
Nicholson S
Keane J
Young VK

on PubMed

McLaughlin AM
O'Donnell RA
Nicholson S
Keane J
Young VK
Related articles/pages
on Google

on Google Scholar

on PubMed

Tools:

Post to:

Case report

A pulmonary mass with invasion into the heart

Anne Marie McLaughlin¹ , Rory A O'Donnell¹ , Siobhan Nicholson² , Joseph Keane¹ and Vincent K Young³

¹Department of Respiratory Medicine, St James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland

²Department of Histopathology, St James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland

³Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland

author email corresponding author email

International Seminars in Surgical Oncology 2008, 5:24doi:10.1186/1477-7800-5-24


Published:	17 October 2008

Abstract

We describe the case of a 58 year old woman who presented with bronchial atypical carcinoid found at surgery to invade the left atrium along the pulmonary veins. A right pneumonectomy and removal of a portion of the left atrium was performed. The patient made an excellent post operative recovery. Three years later she presented in acute respiratory failure secondary to local recurrence. This is first case described in which recurrence after resection of bronchial carcinoid metastatic to the heart is described.