Right Ventricular Heart Failure from a Cardiac Yolk Sac Tumor
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Right Ventricular Heart Failure from a Cardiac Yolk Sac Tumor
BACKGROUND Cardiac involvement by a malignant tumor is rare. However, this is a case of right heart failure due to cardiac metastasis from a yolk sac tumor. Although a few case reports of cardiac metastasis from yolk sac tumors have been published, to our knowledge this is the first instance of multiple metastases to the right ventricular of yolk sac tumor in an adult male. CASE REPORT The pati...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Case Reports
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1941-5923
DOI: 10.12659/ajcr.907639