This case highlights the risk of massive pulmonary tumor embolism during or immediately after surgical excision of invasive renal cell carcinoma in large veins, emphasizing the need for standby cardiopulmonary bypass and intraoperative echocardiography.
Pulmonary tumor embolism can cause fatal collapse after renal cell carcinoma resection with venous invasion; hypothesis-generating for standby bypass and echocardiography.
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