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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Suspected Cardiac Thrombus: Conventional and Emerging Techniques
Published on: June 11, 2019
Right-sided invasive metastatic thymoma of the heart
P M van der Zee1, J van Schuppen, R B A van de Brink
1Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, room B2-223, Meibergdreef 9, 1105, AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, p.m.vanderzee@amc.uva.nl.
Abstract:
Cardiac tumours may display diverse symptoms through potential involvement of any structure of the heart. We describe a case of a highly malignant thymoma with involvement of different cardiac structures with important haemodynamic compromise. With the high sensitivity of transthoracic echocardiography for detection of intracardiac masses, computed tomography and magnetic resonance add essential structural preoperative information on the tumour and surrounding tissue as vessels, pleura, lung and mediastinum.
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