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Primary malignant pericardial mesothelioma mimicking left atrial myxoma. Case report
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
In a 32-year-old man with clinical and echocardiographic signs mimicking left atrial myxoma, thoracotomy revealed a highly malignant pericardial mesothelioma with an intraatrial pendulous extension and haemorrhagic pericardial exudate. CT scanning of the thorax is useful when an intracavitary cardiac mass is associated with pericardial exudate and/or with suspected extracavitary involvement.