Metastatic chordoma to the left ventricle: A case report.

ABSTRACT: Chordoma is a rare neoplasm of bone that develops from the remnants of the primitive notochord. We present a 78-year-old woman with metastatic chordoma to the left ventricle. She had been diagnosed with sacral chordoma 5 years earlier, and chordoma gradually spread to numerous muscles, the ankle joint of the left leg, bilateral lungs, and the brain, despite repeated surgical excisions and carbon heavy-ion radiotherapy. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography showed an abnormal accumulation in the heart, with features similar to the other metastatic lesions. Transthoracic echocardiography could not provide a clear view of the heart, but multidetector computed tomography revealed that a giant abnormal mass was attached to the apical inferior segment of the left ventricle. The patien

SUBMITTER: Harimoto K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6269411 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature