Fig. 1

Preoperative imaging and intraoperative views of the metastatic tumor. a CT (256 Multislice Philips ICT, arterial phase, 4-chamber reconstruction images) and (b) MRI (Siemens Magnetom Prisma, 3 Tesla, T2 weighted single-shot TRUFI sequence) showing HCC metastasis infiltrating ventricular walls and septum, (c) intraoperative view showing apex with tumor exposed, (d) 27 × 27 × 12 mm section of tumor removed in toto