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Point-of-Care Kidney and Genitourinary Ultrasound in Adults: Image Acquisition
Published on: June 21, 2024
[Echocardiography as a first diagnostic step in kidney tumours]
Ewa Szymczyk1, Piotr Lipiec, Błażej Michalski
1II Katedra Kardiologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi, Łódź. eszymczyk@ptkardio.pl
Abstract:
Intracardiac tumours are usually found after clinical symptoms lead to a positive imaging study, or as an incidental finding of imaging study, usually echocardiography. Cardiac tumours range from non-neoplastic lesions to high grade malignancies. The majority of primary cardiac tumours are myxomas (in 75% cases) or sarcomas (about 10% cases). In this paper we present cases of 2 patients with right atrial tumour, extending from renal carcinoma, invading renal vein and inferior vena cava into right atrium. Two different therapeutic strategies were undertaken in those patients.
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