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Use of Electromagnetic Navigational Transthoracic Needle Aspiration (E-TTNA) for Sampling of Lung Nodules
Published on: May 23, 2015
Primary lung tumour visualised by transthoracic echocardiography
Magnus Dencker1, Carin Cronberg, Sabine Damm
1Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. magnus.dencker@skane.se
Abstract:
We present images of a rare case where a primary lung tumour was visualised by transthoracic echocardiography. The patient was a 78-year-old male where Chest X-ray had revealed a tumour-suspected structure in the left lung. Both transthoracic echocardiography and combined PET/CT images showed a large tumour located close to the heart. Fine-needle biopsy showed non-small cell lung cancer.
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