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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Suspected Cardiac Thrombus: Conventional and Emerging Techniques
Published on: June 11, 2019
[Pathological mass in media mediastinum - diagnostic difficulties]
Anna Lisowska1, Małgorzata Knapp, Bożena Sobkowicz
1Klinika Kardiologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny, Białystok. anlila@poczta.onet.pl
Abstract:
Pathological mediastinal masses are usually unexpected, common findings. This discovery needs a wide range of diagnostic approach. The way of treatment depends on results of diagnostic tests and images and sometimes difficult decision has to be made as it was in a case report of 76 year-old man in whom according to echocardiogram and computed tomography a large postmyocardial aneurysm of left ventricle was found. But intraoperative finding revealed purulent pericarditis.
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