Original Article: PDF OnlyIntraventricular Photon Deficiency in Gated Cardiac Blood Pool Imaging due to Left Ventricular Metastases from Renal Cell CarcinomaSHIH, WEI-JEN M.D.; STIPP, VICKIE Author Information From the Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs and University of Kentucky Medical Centers, Lexington, Kentucky Clinical Nuclear Medicine: October 1991 - Volume 16 - Issue 10 - p 754-756 Buy Abstract Cardiac metastasis can occur with any widely disseminated malignancy, especially from carcinoma of the kidney, stomach, lung, breast, or from melanocarcinoma. Metastasis to the myocardium can protrude from the endocardium into the intraventricular cavity of the left ventricle. We present a case of renal cell carcinoma and left ventricle cavitary metastases, documented by an echocardiogram demonstrated in a cardiac blood pool study as a photon-deficient area in the left ventricle cavity. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers.
