Intra-cardiac metastasis from testicular non-seminoma germ cell tumour; to resect or not to resect.

Metastatic heart tumours are rare. Most arise from lung, breast and renal cancerous primaries, soft-tissue sarcoma and malignant melanoma. We report the case of a 32-year-old policeman who presented to the emergency department very short of breath with a fiveweek history of weight loss and malaise. He was noted to have a mass in his right testicle, numerous 2–3 cm round shadows on chest Xray (CXR) and a large mass within the right ventricular cavity. After much informed debate, the patient was treated solely with chemotherapy with the expectation of cure. We set out this argument and recommendations for future patients with this unusual problem. 2010 Published by European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.