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Cardiac calcified amorphous tumour: an unusual aetiology for recurrent cardioembolic strokes
Rishi Sharma1, Saketh Annam2, Mehmet Guler3
1Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA sharm415@umn.edu.
Abstract:
We report an elderly woman with vascular risk factors and recurrent cardioembolic strokes in whom the stroke aetiology was finally ascertained to be a calcified amorphous tumour of the heart after repeated negative investigations for embolic aetiology over 2 years. This report discusses the clinical and imaging characteristics of calcified amorphous tumours of the heart with emphasis of recent advances in cardiac imaging.
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