Right atrial mass: tumor or aneurysm?

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Oldenburg, Dr Eden Street 10, 26133 Oldenburg, Germany.

Published: September 2003

Accurate diagnosis and the surgical therapy is challenging for a mediastinal growth. After coronary artery graft surgery in 1982 and coronary reoperation in 1992, a patient was admitted for right atrial tumor. Echocardiography and MRI scan did not reveal precise tumor delineation. Histological studies proved a saphenous vein graft aneurysm.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1569-9293(03)00101-4DOI Listing

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