1. A Giant Mass Filling the Left Atrium: A Case Report.
- Author
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Gonçalves FF, Borges S, and Moreira JI
- Subjects
- Female, Heart Atria diagnostic imaging, Heart Atria pathology, Heart Atria surgery, Humans, Middle Aged, Multimodal Imaging, Heart Neoplasms diagnostic imaging, Heart Neoplasms surgery, Myxoma diagnosis, Myxoma pathology, Myxoma surgery
- Abstract
Background: Cardiac tumors have heterogeneous and unspecific clinical presentations which is why their diagnosis is difficult., Case Report: A middle-aged woman presented to the emergency department with unspecific symptoms developing over 2 weeks. Multimodality imaging revealed a large mass filling the left atrium with a large base adherent to the fossa ovalis and flow obstruction. After surgical extraction, the anatomopathological analysis was compatible with a primary benign cardiac tumor., Conclusion: Clinical presentation of cardiac tumors is usually unspecific and multimodality imaging is crucial in the diagnostic workflow. Surgical excision should be performed as quickly as possible., (Copyright© Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at epub@benthamscience.net.)
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- 2022
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