Primary cardiac malignancies are rare. New imaging methods like cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) play an important role in the early diagnosis and differentiation of cardiac masses. By presenting the case of a 63-year-old woman with an angiosarcoma of the right atrium and its characteristic findings on cardiac MRI, the role of this new imaging method is emphasized.

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