A Case of Intracardiac Invasion of Hepatoblastoma Diagnosed With Point-of-Care Ultrasound.

Pediatr Emerg Care

From the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe City, Hyogo, Japan.

Published: October 2018

Ultrasonography can be useful in the evaluation of children with abdominal complaints and may be the initial imaging modality in patients presenting with a newly recognized abdominal mass. Hepatoblastoma is an uncommon cause of acute abdominal pain in children and can rarely metastasize to the heart through vascular invasion. We report a case in which a 4-year-old girl who presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain promptly underwent point-of-care ultrasound and was subsequently diagnosed with intracardiac invasion of an abdominal tumor.

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