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Radiographics
June 2024
From the Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 648, Rochester, NY 14642 (M.C.L., G.J., S.P., Apeksha Chaturvedi, Abhishek Chaturvedi); Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY (I.C., M.J.V.); Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY (A.C.F.); and Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn (L.B.H.).
Cardiac tumors, although rare, carry high morbidity and mortality rates. They are commonly first identified either at echocardiography or incidentally at thoracoabdominal CT performed for noncardiac indications. Multimodality imaging often helps to determine the cause of these masses.
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February 2024
Cardiology Service, Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen - EsSalud, Lima, Perú.
Heart masses, including tumors (primary and secondary) and pseudotumor (cysts and thrombus), are rare entities, but of increasing interest in cardiac imaging areas. The clinical manifestations are related to the intracardiac effect of mass, embolization, and systemic symptoms in the case of tumors; however, some of them are detected incidentally. Nowadays, imaging techniques and the advancement of their tools perform the morphological, functional, and tissue characterization of the masses, and additionally know the anatomical relationships, which are crucial factors for the treatment and surgical planning.
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March 2023
Department of Cardiology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.
Pan Afr Med J
June 2017
Service de Chirurgie Cardiaque, Hôpital Militaire d'Instruction Mohamed V, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université Mohamed V, Rabat, Maroc.
Intracardiac thrombosis is a rare complication of Behçet's disease (BD), which may manifest as intracardiac tumor. In half of cases, its detection precedes the diagnosis of MB. High mortality rates may be related to post-surgical complications and/or pulmonary arteries involvement.
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November 2016
Sect. of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
. Inflammatory pseudotumor is an uncommon entity, and its cardiac origin is exceedingly rare. .
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